[Gpdd] [MISCELLANEOUS] Two questions that have been bugging me

[DebJonSara at aol.com]

When one gets my side of 50, one becomes more and more forgetful, and there  
are two piggie issues that have been bugging me. As you may know, we have  
helpers here from all over the world, and I try to educate them as much as I can  
about piggies - I kind of see it as one of my roles in life! Now I always 
tell  them one must not give piggies wet veggies. I am pretty sure I read on here 
once  that one must not feed wet veggies to guinea pigs. If one washes the 
veggies  before serving them, one has to dry them off first. Now, have I 
mis-remembered  this, or is it true, and if it is true, what is the reason?? I tell 
helpers they  mustn't feed wet veggies to the Dolly Mixtures, and often they 
ask why, and I  just have to shrug and admit I can't remember. 
 
And the other question - a few months ago, I heard on the radio  news on the 
way to work that scientists had made a breakthrough in breeding  the first 
ever mouse that could catch the common cold. They made a really big  thing of the 
fact that there had previously been no laboratory animal that could  catch 
the common cold, and now that they had bred one, there would be a lot more  
research done and perhaps a cure would at last be found. I had to check whether  
it was 1st April, but it wasn't! I am sure it's common knowledge in the piggie  
community that our masters can catch colds from their slaves. I always avoid  
handling any of mine if I have so much as a sniffle for that very reason. But 
 could this just be a myth? Or do piggies develop URI's from contamination 
from  our cold germs which are not exactly like human colds? 
 
Wheeks to all piggies and slaves from France
 
Debbie