Thread: Cats transferring turbuculosis to their owners?

No doubt there will be paperwork come out given time but in the report on TV last night it was in free roaming cats that had easy access to cattle etc...... It won't stop or worry me loving my furries just the same , as it is now sure indoor cats are fine but who is to say what will throw out from this now, with all health scares you think about them weigh up the odds & my reasoning is I could get run over on the way up town....no vaccine {animal}that I am aware of as yet but I am sure if it is going to become something common then it will be looked in to like the feline leukemia is now,perhaps this will make the TB vaccine program available to humans again as there are a lot more cases country wide again,non animal related & it was pretty well a thing of the past when the vaccine program was running,we have had the same problem in the dog world parvovirus came into the country & killed a lot of dogs a vaccine program was set up & it just about became a thing of the past then the over vaccinating your pets scare hit the news so people used to cut out the parvovirus part as there wasn't any about,what happened a few years down the line yep more deaths,we never had any at our practice but one nearby had several so panic for everyone to get their dogs done again,still if we didn't have these little scares sometimes life would become very boring wouldn't it,watch this space as they say I just hope it doesn't mean a lot of loved cats out there are now going to be kicked out "in case" I do wish with anything that could affect us they followed it up a bit more closely with the "hows & whys" before panic sets in.....xxx

P.S. My apologies for the dreadful spelling of "tuberculosis".
My excuse is that it was 10.15 at night, and my brain drops out of gear at 10.00pm!

my HO came home Friday with the same concern - we still feed Trespasser outside (I think he ate Clyde) (for the story Tress and Clyde are roaming cats in our area - Clyde was all skinny and sickly looking, he's no longer coming - Tress on the other hand is very well thank you, he's some sort of MC cross I think, but we can't approach him - I started leaving food outside for Clyde because Tress seems to be managing pretty well on baby rabbits and doves who try to settle in our garden, but then Clyde stopped coming and even the most disgusting food was still disappearing so...) (oh and yes I named them - Clyde-the-cat-from-outside and Trespasser-the-rabbit-killer) so we decided to keep his bowl quite far and never bring it in for cleaning or anything. Tress is quite well behaved, he eats his food and cleans his plate, unlike a pirate I know.

the problem I have now is, if one of us catches it from a human, and gives it to the cat.... (yes, I do have a sense of priorities - it might not be like everyone else's is all)