Actually, the risk of a pregnant woman contracting something from cat feces is next to nil. I did quite a bit of research on it when I got pregnant. ^_^
I'm so glad that my cat stays on my property. I think now I'm going to ask my neighbors if my cat ever bothers them, and have my dad build her an unclimbable fence if it turns out that she does. (We had one at our old house to keep my neighbor's furry horde out of our yard. ^_^)
Twisterdog: You'd think the owners would learn after losing a cat like that! Stupid people! (Oh, and I wasn't offended by your post, and actually didn't find it graphic. I just abstained from letting myself see that mental picture.)
My father has a good friend who makes a living by his garden. He grows some obscenely rare types of flowers or something, and that's how he gets his money. He has a neighbor who has MANY MANY indoor/outdoor cats that were constantly messing in his garden. He spoke to her at length about it, and when his being polite didn't work, he started trapping them and taking them to the Humane Society. The woman kept getting them back, so finally he resorted to giving them to an out-of town friend and having the friend drop them at the HS in his area. Sad, but it's the price she paid for messing up his livelihood.
