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I was just curious. Do you wash your hands after handling your dog? Especially, say, before getting ready to eat? I just get paranoid - especially after the tapeworm incident in the fall.
Well my hands are always on Katie unless I am eating. So I only wash before cooking & eating......where shes conserned. Dogs cats & people get tapeworms from fleas. So unless you swallow a flea I dont think you can get tapes.
Well my hands are always on Katie unless I am eating. So I only wash before cooking & eating......where shes conserned. Dogs cats & people get tapeworms from fleas. So unless you swallow a flea I dont think you can get tapes.
Why don't you ask the person who knows? -- your veterinarian!
Goodgod I'd do nothing all day and night but wash my hands. I'm a toucher. I touch everyone I love. That means I accept unconditionally everyone I love.
Do you wash your hands after every time you touch a human you love? God only knows how many millions of microbes are scurrying all over them!!!
Why don't you ask the person who knows? -- your veterinarian!
Goodgod I'd do nothing all day and night but wash my hands. I'm a toucher. I touch everyone I love. That means I accept unconditionally everyone I love.
Do you wash your hands after every time you touch a human you love? God only knows how many millions of microbes are scurrying all over them!!!
Right-on allforcats! I myself am a rabid-non washer believing that the germs you have on your hands (and put into your body) strengthens your immune system. So far it has worked beautifully for me. Of course, if someones immune system is already depressed by taking some kind of drugs, then perhaps they should be more careful about exposure.
Like you, I touch my cats about 50 times an hour. Both of them sleep with me (one on my head)! Washing my hands every time would not only be impossible but a complete waste of time. Actually, if you were to compare - my cats are probably cleaner than I am. LOL
20yrsinBranson
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Right-on allforcats! I myself am a rabid-non washer believing that the germs you have on your hands (and put into your body) strengthens your immune system. So far it has worked beautifully for me. Of course, if someones immune system is already depressed by taking some kind of drugs, then perhaps they should be more careful about exposure.
Like you, I touch my cats about 50 times an hour. Both of them sleep with me (one on my head)! Washing my hands every time would not only be impossible but a complete waste of time. Actually, if you were to compare - my cats are probably cleaner than I am. LOL
20yrsinBranson
Hahahahaha!!! I agree with you completely! Yes, our cats are much cleaner than we are!
You sleep with one on your head too? I'm in a king-sized bed with four cats strewn about... One sits on the pillows above my head, bites a curl, pulls the curl back from my head between her teeth, then lets go of the curl which SMACKS against my head! She is fascinated by this, and does it about 6 times a night until she's got it down pat. Until the next night...
One of mine sleeps against my left side under the covers, and another sleeps between my legs under the covers until he gets too hot, when he drags himself out and nestles between my legs above the covers!
And then there's the fellow who wakes me up around 2:45 every morning to sit on my face and head while he purrs and kneads and drools in my hair. True love...
People get tapeworms from raw or undercooked meat or fish. It's a rarity, but children have gotten tapeworms from swallowing a flea.
These are DIFFERENT genera of tapeworms. From pork it's Taenia solium. From beef it's Taenia saginata. From fish - and it's FRESHWATER fish ONLY, like pike, it's Diphyllobothrium latum. These are all very different from the worms that infect dogs and cats. They have completely different life cycles and different definitive hosts. Obviously, fleas don't fool around with fish...These tapeworms aren't even the same GENUS as the one that infects dogs and cats. VERY different!
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