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- From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: ATTIC DANGERS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.130043.10311@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 13:00:43 -0600
- References: <1993Jan25.194450.49553@evolving.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <1993Jan25.194450.49553@evolving.com>, judy@evolving.com (Judy Bettinger) writes:
- >
- > [discussion about kitties falling into wall from attic snipped]
- >
- > We live in an old house (1918), and Bast loves to sneak up into
- > our walk-up attic if we're not really careful. She can't fall
- > into the walls as in a newer house, but her favorite thing
- > seems to be to get as filthy as possible in the old rock wool insulation.
- > Does anyone know if this is dangerous? (Yes, we do our best to keep
- > her out of there, but you know how it goes sometimes...)
-
- Insulation materials are not the world's best for cats or humans to be
- playing in. Why? Not because of asbestos dangers, but because of the
- number of small particulates that can get into lungs and cause the
- equivalent of silicosis (black lung of miners). I _expect_ that we're
- going to find that all the hoo-haw about asbestos fibers and lung cancer
- is really just a special case of the type of damage that breathing
- small particles does to lungs.
-
- Kay Klier Biology Dept UNI
-