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Re: Help My Guinea Pigs Are Being Attacked!!!!! Help!!!

Besides, if someone in the house has a deadly allergy to something, it is not going to be kept anywhere in the home or on the property. Have some common sense. If my pets, whom I love like my own children, were going to cause a fatal reaction to someone in my family there would be no question of what to do. Unfortunately the pet would have to go to a different loving home.

I have never in my life heard of allergies to pets being deadly enough to kill people, although it is possible to have anaphlylatic responses to anything, such a reaction is very rare, and occurs mostly with foods, insect stings, medicines, and horse serum (used in tetanus shots). See a pattern here? Most of these things are items that actually enter the body and end up in the blood stream, not that are inhaled or touched. Inhalation anaphylaxis is a very rare form of a very rare reaction, and the vast majority of touch-induced anaphylaxis is due to peanuts and tree nuts because of the oil. The mere smell of it can also put some allergic people into shock. I doubt very much that in the highly unlikely event that someone is deadly allergic to rabbit urine that putting the rabbit in any area that could be accessed by the severely allergic person (which would include the backyard or the garage) would solve the problem.
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