Due to all the heinous and deadly diseases that cats carry and spread today, it would be wrong to advise they be used for food, or furs, or taxidermy, or anything else in this day and age (even in jest). The risk to anyone dressing them for even the use of their furs today (as they were commonly used in the past) could be deadly to the people involved.

These are just the diseases that these vermin cats have been spreading to humans, not counting the ones they spread to all wildlife. There are no vaccines against many of these, and are in-fact listed as bio-terrorism agents. They include: Afipia felis, Anthrax, Bartonella (Rochalimaea) henselae (Cat Scratch Disease), Bergeyella (Weeksella) zoohelcum, Campylobacter Infection, Chlamydia psittaci (feline strain), Cowpox, Cóxiella burnetti Infection (Q fever), Cryptosporidium, Cutaneous larva migrans, Dermatophytosis, Dipylidium (tapeworm), Hookworm, Leptospira, Giardia, Neisseria canis, Pasteurella multocida, Plague, ...

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