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Old 07-04-2012, 09:55 PM   #1884
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by DanaC
Not every cat owner is able to allow their cat to roam free. If I were ever to have a cat I'd be inclined to rear it as a mostly indoors cat. The roads are just too dangerous. And I am in a semi-rural village.
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Originally Posted by Sundae
Diz now has a choice.
He is still mostly a house cat.

I didn't realise this made me trendy. I'm off down the discotheque to get my groove on.
You ladies know I was just going for the ironic parallelism there, right?

"He also cautions against trendy food production techniques that let animals roam free. 'The risk of infection could go up,' he said, 'and increase the rate of toxoplasmosis.'"

I don't actually have an opinion on indoor vs. outdoor felines. I was just noting that the rate of toxoplasmosis in humans is almost exclusively due to cat litter boxes, yet this douchebag is trying to blame it on my free-range burger.
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