THIS is why cats etc are not coming into my retreat after TSHTF

[NorthernRaider]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-bite.html

[Jan]

Plus it makes me feel sick just looking at his fingers, poor sod

[NorthernRaider]

I got banned from other forums for advocating a zero tolerence to fur and feathers coming near retreats, I even do my best to forcibly disuade critters like cats from coming into my property now because AFTER TSHTF and their owners are dead or missing the filthy parasitic felines and stray mutts will look for other people to feed them, and christ knows what they have stood in, rolled in or eaten, or what type of flea is riding on the critters back.

Imagine a cat that has walked through the fluids leaking from rotting bodies and then walks into your kitchen? Or a dog that was starving and eats from a rotting corpse, perhaps one that succumed not to the disaster but to Typhus, Thyphoid, Cholera, TB Bubonic or Pneumonic plague etc. Or a carrio crow, wood pigeon, Magpie or any other scavenger that eats something diseased then takes a dump on your garden foodstuffs.

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I do think to a certain degree ones own pet cat or dog could be kept must theres no way on earth they should be allowed in the house AFTER TSHTF, but Providing your moggie is kep in your garden to keep other vermin out, or your dog to act as a ratter / security hound, Maybe some way of accomodating them could be worked out. Personally though I could not take that risk cos i have kids to think about and kids immune systems do not fully develop until they reach their late teens.

[Nemesis]

Not nice poor fellow, rats and the like are going to be a big problem, if ever there is a break down, and yes to pets being kept outside.

[NorthernRaider]

As a consultant virologist told my wife at a conference in Harrogate, " it only takes 1 infected flea to come indoors on a pet to kill everyone"

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And also dont not forget that once society colllapses NOTHING and I mean nothing will stop bats, birds, rats, mice etc from France bring rabies back to the UK.

[bigpaul]

dont have much time for cats personally, there are plenty around here and they come in the front garden and cr>p everywhere.

[NorthernRaider]

My favourite book is 1001 things to do with a dead cat.