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Tue, Apr 16 2013 at 4:30 AM

Please explain to the class how an animal, the domesticated cat in this case, which is perfectly capable of carrying and transmitting the plague all on its own could have prevented the plague in Europe. Google for: Cat-Transmitted Fatal Pneumonic Plague, for a fun one. Yes, the plague is alive and well today, and BEING SPREAD BY CATS. People have already died from cat-transmitted plague in the USA. Or Google for: Oregon man suffering plague Or: Taos cat has plague Or: (hundreds of others). Totally disproving that oft-spewed LIE cat-lovers tell about having more cats in Europe could have prevented the plague. No rats nor fleas even required if you have cats around. Cats themselves carry and transmit the plague all on their own (all 3 forms of it). Cats contract the disease in the very act of killing or being in proximity of a plague-carrying rat. Now add in the fact that cats attract rodents right to them if the cats infect the rodents with their Toxoplasma gondii parasite (Google for: Parasite Hijacks the Mind of Its Host), and you'll see a plague the likes of which have never existed before. Especially when you breed super-strains of plague with your overuse and irresponsible use of antibiotics. Add on top of that, that cats have been selectively-bred by humans for so long that they are now also genetically predisposed to seek out human habitation. Stray-cat and feral-cat feeders guarantee people are getting diseases from stray and feral cats by teaching these wild animals that humans need to be approached for food. (Google for: Feral Cat Attack Rabies, for an eye opener.) This doesn't give cat-proponents any kind of right to run around screaming, "If we don't let cats roam free we're all going to die of the plague!" When, in fact, the exact opposite could come to pass.

Little General, Please

Fri, Apr 05 2013 at 11:51 PM

Little General, Please explain to the class how an animal, the domesticated cat in this case, which is perfectly capable of carrying and transmitting the plague all on its own could have prevented the plague in Europe. / Google for: Cat-Transmitted Fatal Pneumonic Plague, for a fun one / . Yes, the plague is alive and well today, and BEING SPREAD BY CATS. People have already died from cat-transmitted plague in the USA. / Or Google for: Oregon man suffering plague / Or: Taos cat has plague / Or: (hundreds of others). / Totally disproving that oft-spewed LIE cat-lovers tell about having more cats in Europe could have prevented the plague. No rats nor fleas even required if you have cats around. Cats themselves carry and transmit the plague all on their own (all 3 forms of it). Cats contract the disease in the very act of killing or being in proximity of a plague-carrying rat. / Now add in the fact that cats attract rodents right to them if the cats infect the rodents with their Toxoplasma gondii parasite (Google for: Parasite Hijacks the Mind of Its Host), and you'll see a plague the likes of which have never existed before. Especially when you breed super-strains of plague with your overuse and irresponsible use of antibiotics. Add on top of that, that cats have been selectively-bred by humans for so long that they are now also genetically predisposed to seek out human habitation. Stray-cat and feral-cat feeders guarantee people are getting diseases from stray and feral cats by teaching these wild animals that humans need to be approached for food. (Google for: Feral Cat Attack Rabies, for an eye opener.) / This doesn't give cat-proponents any kind of right to run around screaming, "If we don't let cats roam free we're all going to die of the plague!" When, in fact, the exact opposite could come to pass.

While it is true that

Mon, Mar 04 2013 at 4:34 PM

While it is true that overpopulation of humans is the #1 problem that we and all other species face today (humans are a "weedy" species, but they ARE NOT an "invasive species", please educate your sorry selves); this still doesn't excuse all the responsible, wise, and intelligent people from stopping all the ecological disasters caused by those phenomenally stupid and criminally negligent people who should have never been born in the very first place. Cats are a man-made (through selective breeding) invasive species. And as such, cats being a product of man's intervention, are no less of a man-made environmental disaster than any oil-spill, radiation-fallout, chemical-spill, or other environmental disaster _caused_by_man_. Cats are _not_exempt_ from having to be removed from every natural environment, wherever and whenever they are found away from supervised confinement. Just as you would do all you can to remove Zebra Mussels from any waterway where they don't belong. Or Burmese Pythons and African Cichlids from every habitat where they exist in N. America today. Burmese Pythons and African Cichlids started out as pets too. Many of our destructive invasive species pests started out as PETS discarded by criminally-irresponsible humans. (Or from pets' habitats, e.g. Eurasian Watermilfoil that is annihilating native aquatic life in many regions of the USA came from people irresponsibly dumping their pet-fish aquarium water into lakes and streams.) And guess what happens to all those other non-native pets that became destructive invasive species? They are destroyed on-site by any means possible -- no questions asked -- none required. Cats are even worse than an oil-spill of multi-continent-sized proportions. They not only kill off rare and endangered marine-mammals along all coastlines (just as all oil-spills do) from run-off from the land carrying cats' Toxoplasma gondii parasites, they also destroy the complete food-chain in every ecosystem where cats are found today. From smallest of prey that is gutted and skinned alive for cats' tortured play-toys (not even used for food, just for senseless play), up to the top predators that are starved to death from cats destroying their ONLY food sources. (Precisely what cats caused on my own land not long ago.) They don't destroy just birds. They destroy everything that moves -- directly or indirectly. They will even destroy valuable native vegetation by destroying those animals that are required pollinators for those plants or those that act as seed dispersers for those plants (as many smaller rodent and bird species do) or those that act as pest-control for those plants. Cats can and will wipe out whole ecosystems eventually -- animal and plant. Cats need to be made to disappear from all non-native habitats -- PERMANENTLY. And the sooner the better. They are breeding out of control at an exponential rate. The reason for "the sooner the better" is that you can only hope you can halt the problem before it is beyond the reach of any method you eventually choose. Luckily, I caught the problem in time where I live (by humanely shooting and burying every last cat I spotted, collared or not, I have a box full of collars to prove it, totally LEGAL, believe it or not). It seems nobody else is faring as well -- their time is being wasted by cat-lickers trying to stop them from doing the right thing. Asking or listening to any deranged invasive species advocate for advice on how to clean up the ecological disaster that they created and perpetuate is about as useful as asking your local career thieves for advice and help to hide your valuables from their daily motives and activities. Ignore anything they might say and you too will solve the problem where you live. It worked 100% where I live!

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