Re: A Problem To Solve :-)

On 4/24/24 14:25, Farley Flud wrote:

cats are fucking filthy animals.  They potentially harbor Toxoplasma gondii.
For human health, ALL fucking cats should be exterminated.

They exterminated them in medieval times in Europe and 2/3rd of human population there got exterminated instead. By disease carrying mice.
In Egypt, on the other hand, when mice put a definite stop to their main agricultural grains, they almost gave up, until somebody introduced cats to households and fields around them. Cats saved the Egyptians, I mean I have no idea how many tens or hundreds of thousands of them, or even perhaps more than a million of them were saved. So cats became as respectable to Egyptians as cows are in India.
There is a full-size statue of a cat among findings of ancient Egyptians, made of pure gold! They meant that much to them.