We even join in the playful antics of our puppies and kittens.
To obtain adult flukes, each of two kittens were inoculated orally with 200 metacercariae recovered from the snakes.
The low prevalence in kittens suggests that, as predicted, the transmammary route of infection is infrequent.
The lack of an obvious ocular-dominance pattern in kittens is also probably because the translucent eyelids of young animals transmit visual information.
The experiment was repeated with day-old chicks, newborn goat kids and kittens, and none of them would cross over the 'deep' side.
The cute mixed-race children, like puppies or kittens, are eminently adoptable.
The fact that kittens are not adult animals, or that they are feline, has nothing to do with it.
Separately from this, metacercariae were recovered from the intercostal muscles of infected rats, and used to infect two kittens to obtain adult flukes.
