Today, I found out that people can get ringworm from cats. I found out because I have ringworm. I don't have a cat. Then I remembered I helped a friend move about two weeks ago, and spent the night sharing a bed with her cat. That's the last time I ever help her move. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, our new cat, which my mum was hesitant about letting us keep because she believes they're diseased, gave us all ringworm. FML
Today, my sister found out she contracted ringworm and scabies from her best friend's rescued kittens. The entire family now has to be treated to prevent it from spreading. There are 7 people in our house and none of us have health insurance. FML
Today, I let my new cat sleep in bed with me. It was cute until she wiped a tapeworm onto my arm. FML
Today, I went to the doctor for an infection from where a cat bit me while I was sleeping. Where that cat came from and how it got into my bedroom I will never know. FML
Today, it's been about year since I had worms. They're easy to treat but I told no one because I was so embarrassed. Was my house unclean? Was my food undercooked? Cue months of paranoia. Today my parents told me that their cat had worms last year. The same cat they asked me to cat-sit for two weeks. No one told me. FML
Today, I'm feeling extremely sick and itchy. I'd bought rats as pets to help with my anxiety, and they gave me ringworm. I now have ringworm in about nine places on my body, including my face. I don’t know which one is worse, being dizzy from the medication or the itching. I’m feeling more anxious than ever. FML
Today, I found out why I had been waking up feeling like crap for the past week. I found tufts of cat fur in my pillow case, and I am allergic to cats. My little brother thought I would get so sick, and he could have my XBox. FML
Today, I found out my cat is allergic to ME. No kidding. FML
Today, I stayed the night at a friend's house for the first time. I went to get water from the kitchen when I saw a cat staring at me. I looked back and it ran off. I told my friend about it. He doesn’t have a cat. FML
Today, I learned how my cat's flea medicine works. Instead of killing the fleas, it just makes the fleas move off of the animal. The good news is my cat no longer has fleas. The bad news is, the fleas moved into my bed. FML
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pennies_lane 6
last time you help her move? that's a bit extreme don't ya think? how's about next time you just don't share a bed with a pussy afterwards?
Ashame 0
How do you know you got it from your friends cat? You can get ringworm plenty of ways, and it would be pretty hard not to notice that on a cat anyways.
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MissErikaHart 0
hater^ lol
MissErikaHart 0
my aunt lives by this. put clear nail polish on the entire surface of the spot; if it's no larger than a penny. let it dry and leave it alone. she used this technique on my arm when I was little and I swear it stopped "growing/spreading" and went away.
LiishaNiinahx 0
You can't even see her face.
MissErikaHart 0
59, that's old
BWill9014 4
Ew shower you dirty kid
Iskaria 0
10 - You're thinking of tapeworm, ringworm isn't actually a worm it's a fungal skin infection. Don't be so vile unless you're properly informed.
Allstarr23 1
Cats are so gross. About 80% of the FMLs are about disgusting cats. People think they are so clean because they wash themselves but think of this. They stand in their own shit and piss in the litterbox and then jump on kitchen tables
boatkicker 5
Cat's can easily be trained not to jump on the table. I don't know why everyone thinks it's so freaking hard to train cats. Mine stays off the kitchen counters and table, comes when I call, doesn't get on my lap when I'm eating. He, like a dog, goes outside to piss/shit. We don't even keep a littler box for him unless we're going out of town, and he never has gone on the carpet or floor or any laundry. Occasionally if no one is around to let him out, he'll pee/poop in the bathtub, but at least that's easy to clean. Cat's often get ringworm the same way people do: too close with an animal who has it, and as has been mentioned already: if it's in the early stages, it's not obvious yet. Hmmm that turned into a rant.....
ThePersonalDream 0
I honestly didn't know that cats could get contained with ringworm. I thought it was called tape worm. Well, there goes my chances of studying to be a vet, thankfully, I wasn't studying to become one though overwise I would indeed fail.
boatkicker 5
Tapeworm and ring worm are two different things Tapeworm is a parasite, which usually is rather difficult (though not totally impossible) to get from cats. Ringworm is a skin fungus, similar to athletes foot and very easily can go from a cat to a person, to any other person.
IcyJack 7
Tapeworm is also pretty hard to get rid of, without prescribed meds, that is.
thrAsHeRr9081 16
62 you are a ******* retard. That is all.
Mortanious 0
Unless you caught it from somewhere else an now you're blaming the cat, your friend is an asshole for not taking care of his cat. You should have seen the cat in bad hygiene condition with mass hair loss, not every animal has ringworm.