DISTEMPER FROM CATS?
The interesting proposition that cats, and perhaps other carnivores, maimed in rabbit traps, may be the cause of distemper in dogs, is put up by Mr Y. T. Shand. In a discussion on distemper, he said that he had more than once observed that when trapping was going on, and numbers of cats and other animals were released with injuries which left them unable to feed themselves properly and thus a prey to disease, there was often an epidemic of distemSer in dogs. He claimed no scientific asis for saying that this was a fact, but from his own observations he believed it to be so. Aa a strong opponents of trapping, on the ground that it cleaned out the natural enemies ot the rabbits as well as the rabbits themselves, he had taken a good deal of interest in the subject.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24899, 12 June 1946, Page 9
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145DISTEMPER FROM CATS? Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24899, 12 June 1946, Page 9
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