| Do I look like Mr Squirrel? Thanks Dawn for this great photo! |
And then there is the allergies, at least for me. Sneezing, itchy nose and throat if I hold him too long, and running nose. Never would have expected this, but I never had a cat before either. I have always judged other people who rehomed pets when they said in the ad that they are allergic as an excuse, and so I feel somewhat stressed and responsible for Mr Baileys. I am also super paranoid, I worried for a good while when we first brought him home last week . What if he chews on wires? What if something falls on him and crashes him? Haha, then I realized that this is the exact thing that will happen when we have kids.
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Don't worry - cats are pretty hardy!
Woweee!! You got yourself a cat!! :D And he looks like one fat cat too!
Just be careful though - my mum says it's not good to have cats around if you intend to get pregnant. Perhaps you might want to read up more on that to see how true it is, and what precautions you can take!
Looking forward to hearing more stories about Mr Bungles/Baileys! ;)
Hi aki-chan, just to chip in about that. I think the worry about cats and pregnancy is toxioplasmosis. It has been rather overblown however because (1) cats are not the main cause of toxo - they've found that eating meat that isn't properly cooked is the main problem (2) cats excrete toxo is their stool which they get from eating infected meat themselves (ie mice, etc). However since Mr Bailey/Bungles is an all indoor cat, (given that he was a feral at one point) pass a certain point, he will not be excreting any in his stool even if he WAS infected. Furthermore if a woman is pregnant and is concerned about this, the easiest thing to do is just ask someone else in the house to do litter box duty and the problem is solved. Basically if the pregnant woman doesn't ingest the infected woman, she's fine :) (3) Many women already have had toxo - it's best to get tested to find out. In that case, the presence of a cat really isn't going to make any difference.
aki-chan: haha so fat right! He doesnt like me because I am controlling his diet. Thanks for the reminder, my parents said the same thing too. Remember Toxoplasma gondii from our microbio class? All those parasite we learnt donkey years ago!
Dawn: Thanks for clarifying the misconceptions! I read about all these before getting Mr Bungles, if anything I think I would have gotten it from all the digging in the soil when I was younger. Mr Bungles says come back soon!
How are the allergies?
Ohh thanks Dawn for the info. Hehe my mum's been nagging me about this for so long, I just kinda shut it off and didn't bother checking it up. :p She's trying to stop me from getting a cat even before I have a chance to get one!
Yes I remember there is a Toxoplasma and some other parasites but those are just vague memories!
aki-chan - get a kitty :)
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