Re: Re: Stray kitten with rabies a reminder to be cautious...

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It isn't a cause for alarm here. Every year animals with rabies are caught around the area. What is fairly new is that at one of the Walmarts near here, there is a large population of stray cats. The city has told people not to feed the cats, but there is a cadre of people who do anyway. This only serves to increase their numbers. Rabies has appeared in one cat over there. It is interesting that the city won't do anything about them because no laws have been violated, regarding the feeding. ON the other hand, the city also can't catch them because the local animal rights group complains saying the cats will just be killed. So, we have a growing population of feral cats at a public place and rabies has already been detected once. Maybe if someone gets bitten by an infected cat, they will sue the animal rights people for allowing the bad situation to continue.

Or, or, one can merely take a deep breath and write this off as anoutlier. It's one case for the entire continent of North America? And I say this as a person given to hypochondriacal musings and I'vestruggled with this kind of stuff.Or, best of all, the middle course. Medium precautions, sense offeel, awareness of the context of the situation, and especially that,awareness of the context and permission to yourself to be less thanperfect. -DougStart the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year.