Another danger to outside cats.

Since you admittedly have been warned about the dangers of keeping
cats outside... If you want forgiveness, stop trolling here and
see a priest or something.
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"Bill Graham" weg9 comcast.net wrote:

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From: "Bill Graham" weg9 comcast.net
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Subject: Another danger to outside cats.
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I am normally an "Outside cat" person, and my five cats are all
outside/inside cats. (they have two cat doors through which they can get
outside the house) I have gone around and around with inside catters several
times now, and I don't want to renew that discussion. However, recently one
of my cats uncovered another danger that I feel it is instructive to
address. He got into some lawn fertilizer and/or weed chemicals that
poisoned him rather badly. Apparently, cats, being fastidious groomers are
prone to poisoning themselves by licking their feet and/or fur after getting
into anything distasteful. This cat damaged his liver by licking some
unknown quantity of lawn chemicals off of himself. I felt that I should warn
others of this possibility.