IN response to Geoffrey Lindey’s recent letter of October, on the issue of dog poo contaminating surfaces.

Is he ignorant of the fact that cat’s poo can spread disease with their faeces too? Who picks that up?

Cats threaten human health by passing on infections such as toxoplas mosis, which can be spread via their faeces. Cat’s prefer to defecate on loose soil and children’s sandboxes. As a result, places like private gardens are known to carry infection. The cat vastly outnumbers the dog by a long way too!

Now even if the approximate eight million much loved moggies only poo’d in their cat litter trays, what about the 10 million feral cats in Britain? So even though there are almost three times as many cats as dogs in Britain and much harder to keep worm free because they hunt, it is only dog’s poo that Mr Lindley regards as toxic all this time.

Toxo plasmosis (cat’s poo) is the real ‘nasty’! It can be fatal and force pregnant women to abort. There are 100 known such cases a year, a statistic that is so often erroneously attached to dogs and their Toxocarosos.

Yes, Mr Lindley, the majority of us do conscientiously ‘pick up’, but I don’t think dog owners will be carrying disinfectant alongside their poo bags anytime soon.

D Yeoman

Ferndown