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leftyladyfrommo

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2. This makes no sense.

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 11:38 AM

Feb 2014

Beluga whales don't eat cats. Don't even have anything to do with cats.

I'll bet those whales have been harbouring those parasites for decades and people just didn't know it.

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Public health warning as cat parasite spreads to Arctic beluga whales [View all] bananas Feb 2014 OP

First songbirds... SHRED Feb 2014 #1

There is no species on this earth that isn't destructive in some way. hamsterjill Feb 2014 #5

not me SHRED Feb 2014 #8

In other words, you hate cats. Daemonaquila Feb 2014 #9

Except cats aren't native to most of their current habitats. Gormy Cuss Feb 2014 #11

Yes they are a problem SHRED Feb 2014 #14

Another opinion hamsterjill Feb 2014 #15

Not even close to 14.7 billion SHRED Feb 2014 #16

This makes no sense. leftyladyfrommo Feb 2014 #2

Yes ^^^ Mz Pip Feb 2014 #3

It's defined as a "cat parasite" because JoeyT Feb 2014 #4

They got it from HUMANS. Daemonaquila Feb 2014 #10

Then the cats and rats should probably stop eating people. JoeyT Feb 2014 #12

Melting ice + increased pet cats = parasites in the water bananas Feb 2014 #6

seems like to much human crap in the water..."In humans, it is one of the most common parasites" Sunlei Feb 2014 #7

T. gondii, the Sushi animals revenge. Sunlei Feb 2014 #13

Cat parasite Steviehh Feb 2014 #17