Catty1
03-13-2006, 10:50 PM
Okay - it's only one way. But so far, the cats that have died from the bird flu were strays that have killed BIRDS that had the flu.
Infected humans have touched birds with the illness - and we don't know if infected mammals can infect us.
One way I thought of to keep our own cats and ourselves safer is to train our kitties to be indoor ones, so they can't hunt ill birds. Make them a new space with a cat tree, or something. And start NOW, well ahead(hopefully) of the virus arriving here(in BIRDS).
Has anyone had to make an indoor cat out of an outdoor one - and how did you do it?
And how do we keep people from dumping their cats because of fear and misinformation?
Catty1
Infected humans have touched birds with the illness - and we don't know if infected mammals can infect us.
One way I thought of to keep our own cats and ourselves safer is to train our kitties to be indoor ones, so they can't hunt ill birds. Make them a new space with a cat tree, or something. And start NOW, well ahead(hopefully) of the virus arriving here(in BIRDS).
Has anyone had to make an indoor cat out of an outdoor one - and how did you do it?
And how do we keep people from dumping their cats because of fear and misinformation?
Catty1