Dr. Cliff Redford
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This one is basically, they realized that it was so easily spread that when a cat had it, even if they didn't have a lot of lesions...
If they bit or scratched or rubbed their face up against another animal or person, let's say, then this fungus would spread.
And it was the stray cats, those darn dirty street cats that were constantly fighting.
And I was rolling my eyes in sarcasm.
uh constantly fighting and obviously in close proximity of one another uh uh living together and they were they just weren't respecting city boundaries and they were spreading it i saw this video on the internets of like this is related i swear of a cat owner who's like it's like my cat's coming home it was in japan this cat's an out like indoor outdoor cat
They scratch each other.
They bite each other.
We've talked about it before.
They kill billions of birds.
Cats are not domesticated.
I mean, they are and they aren't.
Maybe your cat, tomato, is kind of domesticated.
If you name it after a fruit slash people think is a vegetable, then maybe it's domesticated.
But the reality is they still have their prey mentality, their predator mentality, and they
You stick most cats out in the wild, and they'll hunt.
They'll very quickly hunt.
you know it does need to go out it is going to smash up your house if you don't let it go out but for your next cat you don't need to train it to do that yeah you want to keep them indoors they live a lot longer as pets and i say that as pets because the studies show that cats that go outside regardless of rural versus urban whatever they're
lifespan or their time as your pet is three years.
Wow.
Is the average.