Your average wild animal has fleas, lice, several parasites, grubs and other larvae embedded under their skin, fungal infections like ringworm and hoof/foot maladies, etc.
Animals get all sorts of bacteria and viral infections. Rabies, West Nile, avian and swine flu, distemper is an AWFUL disease, I had some cats get that and their suffering was horrifying and it literally turned them into cannibals. Strangles is a disease in horses and is deadly and very contagious, it's like human mumps. Respiratory infections, pneumonia....
Then they get a bunch of other stuff that's not contagious but really, really bad. Anthrax, tetanus, etc. Anthrax is contracted from a spore in the pasture.
Mother animals frequently have problems from pregnancy and birth. Certain infections can cause death of the baby w/o birth (it bloats and rots inside her), can also cause retention of the placenta after a successful birth. They get mastitis frequently, which is bacterial.
Horses can't vomit or burp and that causes them added distress sometimes when they're sick, it can also just cause pain in general if they eat a bit too much. Cows can and do eat themselves sick or literally to death. Many animals are like this, they do not understand when to stop eating and it ends up killing them. This is why in cow and horse barns, the grain is secured away, because if they get into it, they will eat to death.
They get similar diseases and conditions that we get and then some.
But none of that really sounds worse than the things that afflict humans. Humans can intervene, that's the main difference. And we have been quite successful, as evidenced by our numbers. And our ability to travel the world has aided in disease propagation. Also, I read somewhere that some diseases can be attributed to the domestication of animals. (No idea where this info came from, quite possibly my ass.) It's all a part of life and survival in general.
I never meant to make a blanket statement about animal versus human grossness. It's an opinion, I think humans have some disgusting behaviors. Truthfully, they aren't any more or less gross than any other animal out there.
Is there an animal that disgusts you?
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Humans are easy to make sick. Animal poop is far less harmful to us than human. Shit, I put it in my garden!
I didn't know that animals can spead horrible diseases to each other. Is it really worse than human disease?
Wow, why am I talking about this so much?
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Your average wild animal has fleas, lice, several parasites, grubs and other larvae embedded under their skin, fungal infections like ringworm and hoof/foot maladies, etc.
Animals get all sorts of bacteria and viral infections. Rabies, West Nile, avian and swine flu, distemper is an AWFUL disease, I had some cats get that and their suffering was horrifying and it literally turned them into cannibals. Strangles is a disease in horses and is deadly and very contagious, it's like human mumps. Respiratory infections, pneumonia....
Then they get a bunch of other stuff that's not contagious but really, really bad. Anthrax, tetanus, etc. Anthrax is contracted from a spore in the pasture.
Mother animals frequently have problems from pregnancy and birth. Certain infections can cause death of the baby w/o birth (it bloats and rots inside her), can also cause retention of the placenta after a successful birth. They get mastitis frequently, which is bacterial.
Horses can't vomit or burp and that causes them added distress sometimes when they're sick, it can also just cause pain in general if they eat a bit too much. Cows can and do eat themselves sick or literally to death. Many animals are like this, they do not understand when to stop eating and it ends up killing them. This is why in cow and horse barns, the grain is secured away, because if they get into it, they will eat to death.
They get similar diseases and conditions that we get and then some.
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But none of that really sounds worse than the things that afflict humans. Humans can intervene, that's the main difference. And we have been quite successful, as evidenced by our numbers. And our ability to travel the world has aided in disease propagation. Also, I read somewhere that some diseases can be attributed to the domestication of animals. (No idea where this info came from, quite possibly my ass.) It's all a part of life and survival in general.
I never meant to make a blanket statement about animal versus human grossness. It's an opinion, I think humans have some disgusting behaviors. Truthfully, they aren't any more or less gross than any other animal out there.