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Re: Mosquito eating cats!! » IsoM

Posted by bluedog on February 25, 2003, at 8:33:48

In reply to Re: Cranky, crabby, crappy -- Part 2 » bozeman, posted by IsoM on February 24, 2003, at 14:23:56

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> She's also my mighty bug hunter. A couple years when mosquitoes have been bad, she hunts through the house in the evening with me, looking for mosquitoes sitting on the walls. I whack them with a rolled up tea towel & when they drop stunned to the floor, she nibbles them up. She loves the taste of mosquitoes & I don't mean bloody ones! If I say "let's go hunt the bad bugs", she's ready.
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Hello Iso

In Aussie Land mosqitoes are carriers of nasty little diseases such as "Ross River Virus" which can affect both humans and wildlife and can result in many nasty CFS and fibromyalgia like symptoms (see this link for some info on Ross River Virus :- http://www.wn.com.au/prohealth/rrv.htm ....There is also heaps of info on this disease if you do a Google search on the topic) They are also carriers of heart-worm lavae that can infect and eventually kill our pets whenever they are bitten by these nasty buzzing bugs.

Because I'm really lazy tonight, I assume that these diseases can only be caused by being BITTEN by a mosquito but I'm wondering if your cats can actually catch anything nasty by actually EATING these pests? Just curious really!!

By the way the mosquitoes at my house only seem to buzz around me when I'm almost asleep and then promptly disappear when I turn the lights on to hunt them down and kill them. I do however refuse to use those horrible poisonous bug killing sprays in my bedroom so sometimes I miss out on a couple of hours sleep just hunting down and killing these nasties.

see ya later
warm regards
bluedog


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