Pet Lovers have Filthiest Kitchen Floors


London, Aug 3 (IANS) People with pets have the filthiest kitchen floors, according to a study.

A house with a dog or a cat will typically have bacteria levels almost 20 times higher than one without. That’s dirtier than an average pub toilet seat, reports express.co.uk.

Surprisingly, having children in a house - however messy - makes only a negligible difference.

Microbiologists at Leeds Metropolitan University swabbed sample areas from kitchen floors and measured bacteria levels.

A couple with no children scored 167 in the study and a couple with children scored 232. But a couple with children and pets scored 2,844.

Bacteria levels in homes with pets were even higher than for a student house.

"This was especially marked in the cases of the married couple with children and pets, where there was a 10,000-fold reduction in bacterial contamination after using a clean mop," said Alan Edmondson.

  

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  • aboobaker uppala, uppala/Holy Makkah

    Tue, Aug 03 2010

    TO KNOW THE HOME WILL BE FILTHY WITH PETS INSIDE,NEEDS A STUDY?

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  • Bulsam, Mangalore

    Tue, Aug 03 2010

    For the sake of their de-stressing, 99% of pet lovers cause stress to the animal they confine to in their homes. All animals are best at in their natural free & open environement and not in our artificial chained/caged & closed environement.

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