Narrow minded or am I asking too much?

[mackynz]

I don't think anyone was claiming to be a scientist. No one is trying to make anyone hand over their animals for study. They only asked. And the fear that this would give cause to damage the hobby because E. coli is scary then I strongly encourage you to read up on what is lurking on your keyboard right now, your cellphone, door handles, any living thing in your house, the air you are breathing. All of it full of dangerous microbes with the potential to kill. All of it documented. We don't outlaw cats for carrying germs. If we outlawed everything that had the potential to harm us we would all be dead. If you think they would try to outlaw BPs for having E. coli in their mouths then I think they have some bigger problems to tackle first. Like cows, they're just chock full of E. coli, yet I have easy access to their meat. So they would first be working on outlawing these deadly organisms in our grocery stores before focusing down on a select group.

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So.......you are not breaking new ground here, you're not even repeating ONE study (I've seen at least three), so what are you even asking?

Let me ask you this: when a vet does a trans tracheal wash to look for a bacterial RI, how do they know what normal flora is if this information isn't already widely available?

If it is so widely available and at least 3 studies have been done could you link me to them? It shouldn't be too much of a bother to find them since they are so widely available. It's just that I can only seem to find one.