Correct me if I’m wrong…. But isn’t finding a new bacteria rather common for people who look at bacteria?
Yes.
For a long time identifying bacteria required growing them on different media. If then bacteria didn’t grow on the media, we didn’t know what it was. However for most pathogenic bacterium we did figure out how to culture them.
Then molecular biology advanced to a level where we can amplify and sequence a single bacterium’s DNA. This has led to a continuous stream of new species discoveries from different environments.
Finding a new pathogenic bacteria for humans is still a rare discovery.
It’s new to me.
20 years later…
Kid: Dad, why did everybody turn into cat-zombies?
Dad: They caught Dipshit Nigel Disease, son.
I foster extra spicy kittens and tame them so they can be adopted. Each time one bites me I think about how I have almost no insurance and this could be the one that unalives me. Those puncture bites are amazing. This little predator weighing less than 1% what I do can do me in with just their teeth.
My pet geese are so much safer.
Foster also, just had a foster fail.
But man, even if it killed me, still totally worth it.
We had four cats die within a year. All orange boys.
Then one day I get a call from a place I’m doing Trap Neuter Release. Some mom just dropped three kids on a porch. I go grab the kids and set a trap for mom. I get the kids home. Three orange girls, two are bobtails. I’ve been on the hunt for an orange girl for years. Jackpot.
Really hoping we get mom because these are bottle babies. Get mom. Orange girl with even less tail.
I know I’m probably keeping mom no matter how feral she is. Definitely one of the kids too.
Time to make the decision. Which kid to keep. Wife vetoes me. We are keeping them all. Plus two more orange girls that will show up over the year. I have six orange girls. Probably more than anyone on the east coast. So much foster fail. So few braincells.
Eventually tame mom after 12 months and multiple attempts on my life. So many orange girls.
Omg.
We were up to 6, chain reaction of cats really.
Last two of those, found one standinf in traffic, ran out and scoped her up, we were close ever since. Second was my wife’s foster fail, turned out she was pregnant and didn’t know.
Last one was a tortie who got attached to me, haven’t done a ginger yet, used to do a ton of bottle babies, those were painful.
Orange cats are so special and unique. I have two brothers and they couldn’t be more different personality wise. They’re my first oranges. One weighs 22 pounds and the other weighs 10.
I’m not doing any more bottle babies until I’m collecting Social Security and don’t have to work or sleep.
Omg they’re exhausting but the best, they took me (and my wife) a lot of work at first to get the trick of feeding, and the pee/poo thing is unpleasant, but they’re so incredibly cute and sweet, our first fail is a bb.
But they often don’t litter train as easily and make a mess, so thats a problem, they’re a ton of work on par with a human baby.
On par except that are three of them at once.
All the people who let their cats roam, run the risk of this and other horrible things. If cat owners are too selfish to care about the local ecosystem and their neighbors, maybe their and their Kitty’s safety will get them to listen.
Found a half a cat in my yard a few weeks back, cause the neighbors wouldn’t fucking listen when I kept telling them that there are coyotes in our area
Cat haters violently rubbing their hands…
How do you violently rub your hands? Do you mean excitedly?
You rub them so hard it starts producing smoke!
Catman
Thanks for the screenshot but where is the link?
I too really want to bite that pink nose in the picture
