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I am doing my science fair project on bacteria found in my school. I took samples from around the school and took them to the lab and found what bacteria was growing. Any ideas on a catchy title???? I want something REALLY cute! Thanks! Some places that i took my samples from if this helps at all are the drinking fountain, phone, basketball, desktop, keyboard, wrestling mat... etc.

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Dogit Design Fresh & Clear Place Mat helps protect floors against food and water spills. The unique interlock feature allows two mats to become one. It is designed for use with Dogit Design Fresh & Clear Large Drinking Fountain or Elevated Food Bowl. The Dogit Design Fresh and Clear Place Mat is a great addition for protecting your floors.

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1.Your kitchen sink Kitchen sinks are dirtier than most bathrooms. There are typically more than 500,000 bacteria per square inch in the drain alone. Plus your sponge, basin and faucet handles are crawling with bacteria as well. 2.Airplane bathrooms It may not be a shock that there are a huge number of germs in most public bathrooms, but experts agree the cramped and overused ones on airplanes are the worst. There are often traces of E. coli or fecal bacteria on the faucets and door handles because it’s hard to wash hands in the tiny sinks. And the volcanic flush of the commode tends to spew particles into the air, coating the floor and walls with whatever had been swirling around in it. 3.A load of wet laundry Any time you transfer underwear from the washer to the dryer, you’re getting E. coli on your hands. Just one soiled undergarment can spread bacteria to the whole load and machine. 4.Public drinking fountains Drinking fountains are bound to be germy, but school fountains are the worst, with anywhere from 62,000 to 2.7 million bacteria per square inch on the spigot 5.Shopping cart handles Saliva, bacteria and fecal matter are just a few of the substances found on shopping cart handles. Cart handles rank high on the yuck scale because they’re handled by dozens of people every day and, of course, raw food carries nasty pathogens. 6.ATM buttons If you’re not careful, you might pick up more than quick cash from your local ATM. These buttons have more gunk on them than most public-bathroom doorknobs! ATMs aren’t frequently cleaned, and are regularly touched — a perfect combination for a lot of germs. 7.Your handbag Recent studies found that most women’s purses had tens of thousands of bacteria on the bottom and a few were overrun with millions. Another study found bugs like pseudomonas (which can cause eye infections) and skin-infection-causing staphylococcus bacteria, as well as salmonella and E. coli. 8.Playgrounds There’s just no way to put this delicately: Children tend to ooze bodily fluids and then spread them around. When researchers sampled playgrounds, they found blood, mucus, saliva and urine. Pair those findings with the fact that children put their fingers in their mouths and noses more than the rest of us, and it’s easy to understand why Junior (and maybe his mom or dad) has the sniffles. 9.Mats and machines at health clubs Antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus has been found on yoga mats and cardio and resistance machines. At high schools, antibiotic-resistant-staph infections have been transmitted through wrestling mats. The same thing could happen at health clubs. 10.Your bathtub Shocking, but true: The place you go to get clean is quite dirty. A recent study found staphylococcus bacteria, a common cause of serious skin infections, in 26 percent of the tubs tested, as compared with just 6 percent of garbage cans. Tubs typically had more than 100,000 bacteria per square inch! You’re washing germs and viruses off your body and the tub is a fairly moist environment, so bacteria can grow. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21423163/

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My female cat is a year and a half old. She is spayed and usually pretty healthy. She is up to date on her vaccinations. I have a automatic drinking fountain for her. I feed her wellness grain free wet food (usually chicken, turkey, or beef and chicken flavor). I give her about a half can of the 5.5 oz at night and a 1/4 cup of the Wellness Complete Health Chicken and Rice dry formula in the morning. She has been eating this for months. I also feed her Natures Variety Rabbit, Chicken, and Venison formulas. They come in a 3.3 oz can and I give her the entire thing. Recently I noticed her urine amounts have been changing. It's been the past month/ Big clumps one day, smaller clumps the next day. Twice in the past month she missed her box. I thought it was because she was outgrowing it so I got her a bigger one. So far she has not been missing it. I also keep her other one for a back up. Her urine sizes in the box kept getting smaller and she has been going more frequently. Yesterday, I gave her a new formula of Wellness which was Turkey and Salmon. Today I had to take her to the vet because she has been constantly going to her litter box, spending a lot of time in there and only peeing a dime size amount. They kept her for a few hours and examined her. They were waiting for her bladder to fill up to check it. It did not get full. They called me and told me I could take her home, they think she has a bladder infection and they gave me antibiotics. Tonight I gave her the pill in her wet food (Turkey and Salmon Wellness-half a can of the 5.5 oz size and she ate the food and the pill. She tends to lick the food and then come back and munch on it. Lately I usually let it sit out all night for her to snack on but tonight what she did not eat in a hour I threw out which was not much. I use Fresh Step Odor Control Litter (Scoop able) and she has always been fine with it. She has never gone outside the box except when she missed it a couple times recently and she peed down the side of the box or right outside of the box on the rubber mat that catches the litter. I added Arm and Hammer Cat Litter Deodorizer to the bottom of her pan when I got her new box. I washed that out first then added the arm and hammer and the litter. Same with her other pan. I also started using Arm and Hammer Cat Litter Deodorizer Daily Odor Eliminator spray. If she pees on the side of the pan which most cats do, I use that to scrap off the litter and urine then I wipe it dry. I also had a little bowl on our enclosed front porch that had water in it. I forgot to refresh the water daily. Today I removed the bowl. She now just has the cat drinking fountain which I clean once a week and replace the filter once a month. I plan on giving her more wet and slowly taking away the dry food. Is there anything else I can do to keep her comfortable. I feel so bad for her and I wonder what have I done wrong for this to happen? Was it her dry food? Maybe when I was sick I did not get a chance to clean her box but once a day instead of two to three times a day? Could it be the Arm and Hammer? The bowl on the front porch? Not cleaning her fountain enough? The new wellness formula cat food? Leaving her wet food out all night after serving it to her? I just want to make sure I am not making a mistake and she keeps getting bladder infections. Thanks for your advice. This is the first time this has happened and I want to learn from it. I also want to add that I change her litter once a month and wash it out. I usually scoop it two to three times a day. I was adding more litter to it every time I scooped and I stopped that because I found buried in the litter was a clump of urine. Last time I changed her box it was a month and two weeks. I usually do it a month exactly to the day. For a day or two last week when I was ill, I was only able to scoop her box once a day. I did take her to the vet. I checked the ash content in her dry and wet and both are under 6.5%. The natures variety kind I feed is the instinct.

Learn to put the pill in her mouth so she will swallow it. You can't count on her eating it all when in food. The pills need to be given daily at the same time every day to make sure the levels of antibiotics are in her system correctly. If she is taking 2 pills a day, you would give one at 6am and one at 6pm every day. Change the litter twice a month if you scoop it out daily making sure that all soiled matter is removed. Make sure that her water is fresh and that she is drinking enough daily. Canned cat food is a good idea as that also contains moisture. You sound like an excellent cat owner. It doesn't sound like you did anything wrong. She just happened to get a bladder infection.

My cat is a year and a half and spayed. I scoop her box two to three times a day. Last night I noticed urine in the mat when I went to scoop her box. I found pee buried in her box as well. After I scooped the box and cleaned the area in front of it she went in it and peed a little and later pooped in her box. This morning she peed in her box. She is acting fine except she threw up eating this morning. She did drink eater afterwards and then played and slept. I feed her Wellness wet and dry but I just ran out if the wet and need to get more. I have a cat drinking.g fountain. Should I be worried?

Some cats hang their butts over the edge too far and pee outside the box by accident (they're fully IN the box, but the urine goes over the side). It can be a rare occurrance, or a regular one (we have an old cat who has arthritis in her back and hips, she stands 'high'). It should be fine.

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