Sleeping With Your Pets Can Be Unhealthy

[Shadow]

Sleeping With Your Pets Can Be Unhealthy, Study Says

CHICAGO (CBS) – Do you let your pet sleep with you? It could be hazardous to your health.

Sound crazy? A new study says a surprising number of people allow their pets to curl up with them, and it could actually be risky. But are the new findings overblown? What dangers could you face from close contact with your pets?

Sleeping With Your Pets Can Be Unhealthy, Study Says « CBS Chicago

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I am glad you found this before Xtoxi. Can't be any worse than smoking or drinking, and emotionally it might balance out and be a positive.

 

[xsited1]

The problem is that when I catch cat-scratch fever, the cats won't move. Anybody else have this problem?

 

[rightwinger]

Yes......thousands of people die each year from sleeping with their pets

If their pet is a Grizzly Bear

 

[Shadow]

I am glad you found this before Xtoxi. Can't be any worse than smoking or drinking, and emotionally it might balance out and be a positive.

Right...I think they are mostly concerned with parasites. And with yearly check ups and other preventable drugs that are available this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Here is an article on the other side of this debate...

My Pet World: Sleeping with pets has more benefits than risks, in most cases

"I can tell you humans have shared their sleeping spaces with dogs (actually ancestors of today's dogs) since the Stone Age," Kornegay says. "The human/animal bond has more benefits than potential risks, which are minimized with regular veterinary exams".

My Pet World: Sleeping with pets has more benefits than risks, in most cases - TwinCities.com

 

[dilloduck]

My sheep has a clean bill of health.

 

[Shadow]

The problem is that when I catch cat-scratch fever, the cats won't move. Anybody else have this problem?

No, but I like dogs because "Puppy Love" doesn't wear off so quickly with a dog.

And because they are good foot warmers.

 

[Shadow]

Yes......thousands of people die each year from sleeping with their pets

If their pet is a Grizzly Bear

Or a Croc...well, except for this guy

Man Sleeps With His Best Bud, a 445kg Croc

Man Sleeps With His Best Bud, a 445kg Croc :: FOOYOH ENTERTAINMENT

 

[Cuyo]

I would kick Monty out of bed, but he hates that. And I gotta live with him.

 

[Trajan]

Yes......thousands of people die each year from sleeping with their pets

If their pet is a Grizzly Bear

 

[Trajan]

My sheep has a clean bill of health.

TMI

 

[Trajan]

I would kick Monty out of bed, but he hates that. And I gotta live with him.

and HE with you....

 

[Trajan]

dogs have been licking their owners since domestication, I think we have probably built up a pretty good immune system by now......a freak disease? sure, but come on.

 

[Sheldon]

I sense a new safe sex campaign coming on.

If you sleep with a person without a condom, then it's like you're sleeping with all the people that that person slept with, and all the people those people slept with, and somewhere along the line, one of those people got a disease from sleeping with their dog.

Are bestiality jokes ever not tasteless?

 

[Shadow]

My sheep has a clean bill of health.

 

[God Guns Beer]

So can sleeping with your wife.

 

[Ringel05]

My sheep has a clean bill of health.

I didn't know you were from New Zealand.......

 

[Zander]

It may or may not be dangerous, but it is disgusting.

 

[God Guns Beer]

Im just glad this 185 lb beast lets me sleep in his bed.

 

[strollingbones]

dogs are too big to sleep on bed...2 cats come and go...well till they wake up hubby then they go....but then the cats sleep on us....all day long...i assure you they see an empty lap as a simple challenge