[ RadSafe ] Cat out of the bag afterpassingthroughairportscanner:-D

[edmond0033]

Sorry the it should be 0.15 mSv
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "edmond0033" <edmond0033 at comcast.net>
To: "John R Johnson" <idias at interchange.ubc.ca>; "Maury Siskel" 
<maurysis at peoplepc.com>; "stewart farber" <radproject at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Cat out of the bag 
afterpassingthroughairportscanner:-D


> They just put them in the carrier with and absorbent (paper) and give the 
> animal a pill or tranquillizer shot.  It lasted the whole trip.  An 
> acquaintance of mine took hers to Fort Myers, FL and back this past winter 
> and told me the story.  Also it's hard to walk a cat as they may strangled 
> themselves.  If they pass them through the X-Ray Machine, the animal 
> shouldn't get more than 15 mrem (.0015 mSv).
>
> Ed Baratta
>
> edmond0033 at comcast.net
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John R Johnson" <idias at interchange.ubc.ca>
> To: "Maury Siskel" <maurysis at peoplepc.com>; "stewart farber" 
> <radproject at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 6:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Cat out of the bag 
> afterpassingthroughairportscanner:-D
>
>
>> Maury, Stewart et al
>>
>> Do you mean "let out of" or "used to dump into":-)?
>>
>> I know that bags used to put "dumpings" into are a concern for 
>> dogs(having been a dog walker when we had one) , but I don't know about 
>> cats (never having walked one!).
>>
>> Does anyone walk a cat, or just put them in their luggage?
>>
>> John
>>
>> ***************
>> John R Johnson, PhD
>> CEO, IDIAS, Inc.
>> Vancouver, B. C.
>> Canada
>> (604) 222-9840
>> idias at interchange.ubc.ca
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Maury Siskel" <maurysis at peoplepc.com>
>> To: "stewart farber" <radproject at sbcglobal.net>
>> Cc: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
>> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 3:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Cat out of the bag after 
>> passingthroughairportscanner:-D
>>
>>
>>> Has anyone yet discovered and applied ALARA to the huge accumulation of 
>>> bags that cats have been let out of?
>>> Maury&      (Dog refused to have any part of this)
>>>
>>> ===========================
>>> stewart farber wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ed,
>>>> My tongue-in-cheek comment about ALARA & cats was solely for the case 
>>>> where this one cat got passed inadvertently through a scanner while in 
>>>> its owners carry-on luggage.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, any cat or dog in an animal carrier would not be passed 
>>>> through an x-ray scanner.
>>>>
>>>> Stewart Farber
>>>> ======================
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "edmond0033" 
>>>> <edmond0033 at comcast.net>
>>>> To: "stewart farber" <radproject at sbcglobal.net>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>; 
>>>> "Steven Dapra" <sjd at swcp.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 4:05 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Cat out of the bag after 
>>>> passingthroughairportscanner :-D
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> They don't let you send the cat or dog through the X-Ray scanner. 
>>>>> They take you aside with the carrier.  Then they make you take the 
>>>>> anminal out
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> no turkey.'"
>>>>>>>
>>> -----------------snipped-------------
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