Oh now spot, stop putting words in my mouth... where did I say cats have human emotions... I am talking a natural animal instict to kill.... it just so happens, that cats kill for fun...(not in a human emotion way) but in their own animal instict way , just a termanology thats all!!! anyone who sees a cat in the throws of "play" with a mouse , will see it is doing so , because it can, no other reason.... and in that I use the term "having fun" loosely


Oh no spot, less of the baloney... again where did I say rats caused Bubonic plague.........????? you will know full well the part rats will have played in "spreading" disease, not "causing"


then maybe you should let the "call of the wild" overtake your "wolf" cross, if you feel so strongly about instict and artificial environments

That's interesting Chaz, I didn't know that you could catch ringworm from a tiggy - I can understand they carry lungworm because they eat snails, and indeed I know many dogs, mine included, who love to eat a nice tasty tiggywinkle poo! However, if you worm your dogs correctly, I know of at least one wormer (Panacur) that will kill lungworm, so it is not a problem.

I cannot imagine anyone considering tiggies to be vermin, and want to control them. They eat thousands of snails and slugs, so are the gardener's friend. We NEVER have to use slug pellets in our garden, but next door uses them by the bucketload because they are plagued with slugs and snails ... this is what I mean by allowing nature to do the controlling via predators. Because she uses chemical control, she has doubtless killed all the tiggies in her garden, or they come into our's because we leave wild areas of untouched land to encourage such wildlife.

Did you know that Myxi was accidently introduced to the Uk, because of rats?? What I was told at college was that it was created by Australian scientists and then some french man introduced it to France, and then when sailors were sailing as they do the ship rats got fleas off the rabbits, and carried them over to the uk, when the rats got off the fleas had bred and found rabbits to thrive off, and voila, myxi got to the uk.

I was thinking that was what spot was on about too.

i think you need to re-read Chazs post, her reference to "tiggy" I think is where she works?????? not an animal

Her refference to ringworm is to Hedgehogs!!!!!!!!

A fountain of knowledge aren't you Chaz ... no I had no idea, how interesting !! I knew that it had been "developed" in Oz, but I did not know about the french guy.

I learn something new every day on Dogsey !

They eat a lot of bugs and beetles too, there have been people who come to tiggys asking for some hedgehogs to be realeased in their gardens

Its a shame that your neighbour uses slug pellets, as they can kill other animals too another problem with posions not being prey speific.

Yeah its where I work, and I think a few people call hedgehogs tiggys, I think that its also because of the character in beatrix potters book aswell

I had to learn about it at college, as we did loads of things on dieseases and the like, and where they originated from, and that was one that surprised me and stuck in my brain.

Yep, thought that was what you meant!!

I do happen to know that, thank you

Ever since I was young and read Beatrix Potter, I have always referred to hedgehogs as tiggies, or tiggywinkles.

I did not know that tiggies could catch ringworm ... or if you prefer, hedgehogs.

Anything can catch ringworm, it is highly contagious!!