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When you walk around your yard where maybe your birds wander and poop and wild birds leave droppings and other animals use the potty. Then you get that on your shoes. You get in your car with your shoes on then get out and walk around running errands with those shoes spreading what ever germs are on your shoes.
Really, what difference does it make? When I was a kid we played in the mud, drank out of the water hose, played outside in winter, ate snow (the white stuff) and i'm still here and I hardly ever get sick. Probably because i've been exposed to the germs instead of a sterile lifestyle.
I wear my rubber boots when I clean the chicken pens and most of the time when I collect eggs but not always. I've had chicken poop on me more times than I can count from cleaning or just getting pooped on. I've even tripped and fell with a chicken in my hands in the spot where I had raked up a pile of soiled wood shavings. I'm still here and well. I shower when I've been cleaning pens, I wash my hands everytime I handle the birds before I do other things. I'm healthy, my birds are healthy, my family is healthy. Well, the ailments are due to age not sickness anyway.
We may catch a cold once a year if that. The stomach flu every 3 or 4 years or so. When ever we are around the grandkids when they have it anyway.
I think too many people worry way too much about germs. The world is full of them and all the antibiotics and sanitizers are making the germs develop resistance to them and it causes the bigger and more dangerous sickneses that are harder to get well from. Then more antibiotics are developed to kill off those illnesses and more sanitizers are used to prevent those germs and more germs morph into something resistant to those things and so on and so on.
This isn't aimed at you moxiechick. I'm just voicing my opinion.
Well now, you're talking about animal germs, which are a lot less icky than people germs. I agree with everything you say regarding overuse of hand sanitizers, and not worrying too much about every little germ. Except people germs. I don't know where they've been and what they've been doing. Humans can be pretty gross.
Actually "children" are the gross ones. with those snotty noses getting wiped on their shirt collars and sleves or just plain arm. They pick their noses and wipe it on anything near including you. They sneeze right in your face and have snot running down their mouth.
They puke anywhere. If they feel like they're going to puke they just do it anywhere instead of heading to the toilet or a garbage can. Instead we have to throw out our furniture, rip up the carpet or scrub the floors.
I would rather wade in a river of chicken poop than be around a sick kid. I do what I had to when mine was a child and I tend to my grandchildren but my preferences are the animals. Not because there aren't many illnesses that we can catch from them it's just they don't know any better. And on the subject of puking. Why is it that when we use the toilet it's such a big deal about catching germs but where is the first place we go when we vomit? Where is your face located, and how are you holding yourself up to avoid your face ending up in the vomit filled toilet? I would much rather find a blastic waste basket than use the toilet for that but isn't that the place that is known for that? Like the term, hugging the golden throan (sp?) or porcelain throan?
So why make such a huge deal about using the toilet. A perfectly natural human function. And it has to be flushed, right? No on wants to use one that isn't! If you was in a public place and had to vomit and the only open toilet to do it in was one that wasn't flushed. What would you do? I would find the waste basket. Sorry cleaning lady but i'm not putting my face in a toilet with somebody elses "stuff" left there.
I know, off subject. Just somethng to think about.
