In everyone's impression, cats and mice are a very normal thing, and they can be said to be natural enemies.
But have you ever wondered why rats carry a lot of germs, and why cats don't get sick when they eat them?
Also, does a cat eat a mouse just to satisfy its own appetites?
The following will solve the questions that have plagued everyone for many years!
It turns out that cats eating mice is not just a mouth addiction, but a mouse has taurine that is indispensable for cats.
Do you know how cats see mice on nights when you can't see your fingers?
It is because of taurine that it not only affects the cat's eyes, but also its heart, brain and fertility. In order to make their cats live forever, cats can only rely on themselves to eat mice.
As for why cats eat mice and do not get sick, in fact, not all mice carry plague bacillus, and mice that do not carry germs are eaten, and cats will certainly not get sick.
Even if it is unfortunate to eat a diseased mouse, the domestic cat has low sensitivity and high resistance to Y. pestis, and most of them can be cured naturally after infection, and retain plague-specific antibodies in the body, so such cats will not get sick, afraid that stray cats often prey on sick mice, which will increase the probability of getting sick.
This article is reviewed by Zhao Xumao, a young researcher at Lanzhou University