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House cat or wild kitty?

Whether to let his cat in front of the door, is for many owners is a difficult question. When it comes to the health of your four-legged friends, the answer is simply this: Indoor cats have fewer diseases.

Prefer a tiger or a wild kitty that hunts mice? This is a question many cat owners, if you have your sweet family is growing fresh in the house. Alone from the health standpoint, the life of cats in the house, but safer. It is not only car accidents, or collisions with other animals. Also, the risk of infection in Outside-cats, is much higher – for animals and humans.

A Meta-study in the journal Biology Letters has shown that cats that rumstreunen out, have almost three times as many parasites as their parlor, the sitting counterparts. That is not only for the dogs to be a Problem. Also the health of their owners is therefore subject to a higher risk. Because of some cat diseases that people can develop. The toxoplasmosis and cat scratch disease, the means include, for example, because it is transmitted by scratch wounds. The responsible parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, and Bartonella henslae, are for healthy adults, although more or less harmless. For children, babies in the womb, and people with a weak immune system but can have the toxoplasmosis are also more serious consequences of flu-like symptoms to schizophrenia or miscarriages.

Especially young kittens should remain the first months in the house

Similar as with humans, young animals are cats especially prone to diseases and parasites. Especially in the first months, kittens should stay on the chair in the living room, and not to the remote corners of the neighborhood to explore. This is also better for the really wild animals, such as Puma, Panther, or even sea otters. Because the can become infected in cats with diseases that your immune system is not set.

What has shown the analysis of the scientists, moreover, that the further cats away lived from the Equator, the more parasites you have. Contrary to the assumption that animals in the tropics the disease, the infection probability for the Outside cats per degree of latitude by 4 percent.

Indoors or outdoors? Both sides have their pros and night parts. When it comes to parasitic infections cats cut off but definitely better.


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