PSA: Petting zoos are EVIL

I have always hated petting zoos, they are gross and seem inhumane on many levels. Plus the animals never seem well cared for or happy. But now I have a very important reason to stay away and I wanted to pass it along.

I had always heard that petting zoos were ripe with bacteria and now on a message board I frequent there is a woman who was recently at a petting zoo with her children and now they are all sick. The woman contracted a heart infection and had to have open heart surgery and the girls have been suffering with a nasty fever for days with no explanation. While the doctors aren't saying that the petting zoo caused all of this they took great interest in the fact that they were there saying that sheep carry the very virus they found in the woman's heart.

So please stay away from petting zoos...they can be very dangerous to people, not to mention animals.