Please help!A couple of months ago i adopted a cat from the cats protection league. she is now starting to go out but she seems to always go up onto my cement bonded asbestos garage roof to go to the front of my house. When i call her back in, she goes on the roof to get back to my back door. Can she get asbestos fibers from the roof which is not broken on her paws.
I guess the question would be, are asbestos fibers coming off the roof? In that case they are floating around in the air and dangerous for everyone, cats or not. Asbestos is only dangerous if fibers are floating in the air and you breath them. I don't know anything about cement bonded asbestos but if the cement bonds it together then I guess it's safe. Maybe someone else knows more...
Undamaged asbestos that is bonded into cement tiles, typically pose as a low risk to public health, but still a risk. Evidence, using electron microscopes, show that asbestos cement products release fibres into the air under normal wear and tear conditions. A 1980 study showed that asbestos was found in the air within 20 inches of a 17-year-old weathered asbestos cement tile. It is 10Xs higher than 100 meters (328 feet or 33 yards) from the same wall. Blue and Brown asbestos are generally considered to be more deadly than White asbestos. Also, outdoor cats lives are shortened by 2/3% then an indoor cat and vet expenses are higher due to diseases, fights, accidents, poisons, stranger mistreatments, traps, etc. situations that the cats may get into. Good luck!
