Can kids get diseases from playing with feathers?
Lice or mites on a birds feathers are very species specific. They may crawl onto humans to visit, but they don't stay.
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Infectious diseases at the vet?
The cat-only vet has little signs they put out on the exam tables that say "Clean" and "Dirty". That way, when you go in, you have the assurance that the table and room has been cleaned.
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Do Animals Avoid Former Nazi Death Camps?
Has anyone been to a battlefield site and noticed a lack of birdsong? If this is a 'morphic resonance' thing, you'd expect places like the Somme and Antietam to be as similary affected as Auschwitz.
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Why Did God Create Animals?
Fine we can keep the bees, so they can pollinate flowers, so they might grow into fruit for human sustenance, but we're still only down to a few animals plus Man on the entire planet. Although, I would suspect you might need small insects to help speed up the decomposition of animals. Okay, but I'll give the insects a small life span so they don't overtake the world.
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Farm Animals For A Depression?
The best choice would be chickens, with the hens you would have the eggs every day and then be able to butcher some of the chicks when they grew up. The next one would be pigs, lots of offspring and they grow quickly. Of course with pigs you have to have feed for them constantly, which if you couldn't grow your own would get expensive.
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