Anyone have any experience with this? Did you/wife avoid them? Did your friends and doctors freak out? Is salmonella less of a concern in torts than in turtles?
Not pregnant yet, just researching.
Not pregnant yet, just researching.
DoctorCosmonaut said:Cats are dangerous?
OT for a secound only......-EJ said:I thought about this for a second or two. I've got 2 kids... well... their not kids now.
Yea... the scare mongers got to me but the selfish person (edited for language) that I am... the tortoises were more important.
I'm sorry... wrong point... diseases from reptiles... ok... can you say toilet, pets... why get specific. Bottom line... good hygiene will keep your kid healthy.
terryo said:OT for a secound only......-EJ said:I thought about this for a second or two. I've got 2 kids... well... their not kids now.
Yea... the scare mongers got to me but the selfish person (edited for language by crazy1) that I am... the tortoises were more important.
I'm sorry... wrong point... diseases from reptiles... ok... can you say toilet, pets... why get specific. Bottom line... good hygiene will keep your kid healthy.
Do you have a few nips every now and then?
brymanda said:Thanks for the info all I have no intention of getting rid of my torts, but when I mentioned it to the nurse the other day she flipped out. I too had read that people have a better chance of getting Salmonella from eatting raw cookie dough than from handling a reptile and then washing their hands.
Cats are considered "dangerous" because their feces can contain toxoplasmosis. So you're just not supposed to scoop the litterbox. Interesting that people aren't told to get rid of their cats, but are told to get rid of their reptiles.
Stephanie Logan said:Toxoplasmosis is rare, but it is very dangerous...it causes major fetal abnormalities if you ingest it in the first trimester... if my memory serves me properly.