There’s a good reason for that careful attention. Hookworm larvae can crawl a foot a day, up to four feet, before they die off. Don’t walk within four feet of where someone pooped, and you won’t get hookworm. Or, of course, dig your outhouse pit more than four feet deep. Same savings.
Was reading just the other day that dogs drop their doodoo in alignment with the earth’s magnetic field. Now, how did they figure that? And why was it at all important to know?
incognito about 8 years ago
No but Oscar will……
gantech about 8 years ago
That seems more cat-like to me.
qq4w354p2c about 8 years ago
There’s a good reason for that careful attention. Hookworm larvae can crawl a foot a day, up to four feet, before they die off. Don’t walk within four feet of where someone pooped, and you won’t get hookworm. Or, of course, dig your outhouse pit more than four feet deep. Same savings.
https://www.google.com/search?q="science+friday"+hookworms
Young folks don’t remember when hookworms were a plague all across the warm states — and now that warming’s moving north, so are the hookworms.
Put those darned shoes on …
K M about 8 years ago
Was reading just the other day that dogs drop their doodoo in alignment with the earth’s magnetic field. Now, how did they figure that? And why was it at all important to know?