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Watch out — your pet could send you to hospital

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Watch out — your pet could send you to hospital


Health | 207884 hits | Mar 26 4:39 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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Beloved Fido and Fluffy are behind an estimated 86,000 falls that send people to emergency, according to a new U.S. government study

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  1. by avatar Heavy_Metal
    Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:02 pm
    i believe it, i've almost done a superman down the stairs a number of times when my cats don't move from the top step....

  2. by avatar Heavy_Metal
    Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:22 pm
    "lily" said
    Those examples sound lore like a person's own carelessness would send them to the hospital. I was expecting to read about bites - from dogs, cats, rodents and especially birds. As beautiful as they are, birds can pack a lot of power behind a bite. My lovie can draw blood, but the big guys, like the macaws can do some serious damage.


    oh gawd yes...some of those those beaks are BUILT to tear flesh from bone 8O

  3. by avatar Bodah
    Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:39 pm
    I tore my meniscus in my right knee from avoiding my cat on the stairs. I couldn't walk for two weeks.

    I think the bastard did it on purpose.

  4. by avatar Bodah
    Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:37 pm
    "lily" said
    I tore my meniscus in my right knee from avoiding my cat on the stairs. I couldn't walk for two weeks.

    I think the bastard did it on purpose.


    Definitely.

    Cats are good judges of character evil.

    Youre right, my cat eats birds. I heard you like birds.

  5. by avatar Bodah
    Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:00 am
    "lily" said
    Darnit - I mucked up my edit. :oops:









    8)


    No worries I knew what you meant. :wink:

  6. by avatar raydan
    Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:01 am
    We had the nicest cat a while back with the sweetest personality. Never went outside and was declawed.
    One nice summer day, another cat came up to our patio screen door.
    My cat went wild and they started fighting through the screen.
    My girlfriend pushed our cat back and tried to close the door.
    Our cat jumped on her and bit her arm.
    My GF pushed him back again and finished closing the door.
    Then our cat came charging back and bit her on her ankle.
    Her arm, where he had bitten her, swelled up and she had to go to the hospital the next day.
    She had a sub-cutaneous infection and was 10 days on antibiotics.

  7. by avatar Bodah
    Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:04 am
    "raydan" said
    We had the nicest cat a while back with the sweetest personality. Never went outside and was declawed.
    One nice summer day, another cat came up to our patio screen door.
    My cat went wild and they started fighting through the screen.
    My girlfriend pushed our cat back and tried to close the door.
    Our cat jumped on her and bit her arm.
    My GF pushed him back again and finished closing the door.
    Then our cat came charging back and bit her on her ankle.
    Her arm, where he had bitten her, swelled up and she had to go to the hospital the next day.
    She had a sub-cutaneous infection and was 10 days on antibiotics.


    Yup, Cat saliva is full of bacteria, after all they use their tongues as toilet paper.

  8. by avatar 2Cdo
    Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:06 am
    "Bodah" said
    We had the nicest cat a while back with the sweetest personality. Never went outside and was declawed.
    One nice summer day, another cat came up to our patio screen door.
    My cat went wild and they started fighting through the screen.
    My girlfriend pushed our cat back and tried to close the door.
    Our cat jumped on her and bit her arm.
    My GF pushed him back again and finished closing the door.
    Then our cat came charging back and bit her on her ankle.
    Her arm, where he had bitten her, swelled up and she had to go to the hospital the next day.
    She had a sub-cutaneous infection and was 10 days on antibiotics.


    Yup, Cat saliva is full of bacteria, after all they use their tongues as toilet paper.

    I've heard that cats are one of the worst animals to bite you infection wise, other than humans! :lol:

  9. by avatar Streaker
    Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:15 am
    "Heavy_Metal" said
    Those examples sound lore like a person's own carelessness would send them to the hospital. I was expecting to read about bites - from dogs, cats, rodents and especially birds. As beautiful as they are, birds can pack a lot of power behind a bite. My lovie can draw blood, but the big guys, like the macaws can do some serious damage.


    oh gawd yes...some of those those beaks are BUILT to tear flesh from bone 8O

    Yup. If you're not too careful in how you handle those creatures you could end up in a hospital in need of an .

  10. by Anonymous
    Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:53 am
    My cat is a sweety pie untill there's another one outside then it's slash and gash.
    If your in the same room as him your going to get attacked.
    Ive never got any infection though and he's clawed me lot's. :o

  11. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:05 am
    I remember sticking my arms into the space between the walls of a hayloft looking for kittens. I'd grab something warm and furry that spit, hissed, bit and scratched and I'd just hope it wasn't a rat....did that twice(gentle scoop turned into sudden squishes). I used to come back with lots of bites and scratches, never got an infection.

  12. by avatar herbie
    Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:15 am
    You can tell people who haven't been around cats much. They haven't built resistance to what lives on kitty claws and teeth.
    And they aren't really evil, they just have such a warped sense of humour it's hard to tell from true evil.



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