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jmowreader

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20. Cats

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Fri May 2, 2025, 07:29 PM

May 2

Cats eat rodents and cockroaches - two classes of animal that carry and spread disease. Hence, by reducing the population of disease vectors cats have a very beneficial impact on the human population.

They're also cute and cuddly, which helps too.

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Which animal has saved the most human lives? (In the last 70+ years) [View all] underpants May 1 OP

ANSWER underpants May 1 #1

Bats lapfog_1 May 1 #2

Good point but not the answer here underpants May 1 #6

I remember seeing a video about this several years ago EYESORE 9001 May 1 #11

Maybe, but probably not to the extent that urban legend has it. sl8 May 1 #10

Fascinating! I was kind of thinking of it in the opposite way - saving lives by Tadpole Raisin May 1 #8

I thought it was Lassie, but hats off to the scientists and to the bats. surfered May 1 #3

What about Flipper? Omnipresent May 1 #5

I was thinking of... 2naSalit May 1 #4

Face eating leopards...... magicarpet May 1 #7

Bees are animals, and help feed us jgo May 1 #9

My first guess was dogs then mice - medical/science tests underpants May 1 #13

Not bears. Ocelot II May 1 #12

😳 underpants May 1 #14

Lab mice. Itchinjim May 1 #15

That and dogs were my first guess. underpants May 1 #16

Horseshoe crabs Ritabert May 1 #17

Thanks for the interesting thread, underpants! EuterpeThelo May 1 #18

Dogs horses and mice were the three I thought of underpants May 1 #19

Cats jmowreader May 2 #20