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"The people of Lithgow Province, in Central Bavaria, believe that animal dander, if sprinkled over a meal directly before consumption, brings good luck. In the past, it was not unheard of for regional public houses to offer a small jar containing pet dander to patrons as a condiment, although the practice is less common today, largely because the scales and feathers spread disease.[2]"
The link given with the Dander article named "Bavarian Folk Cuisine" [2] is, in fact, a link to a German language government document concerning local politics in Munich, Bavaria. There is no mention of food or dander in the document. Also, brief research on the area of Bavaria suggests that there is no such place as Lithgow Province. 91.37.141.45 ( talk) 14:37, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Erk, what if anything can be shed from an animal that is similar to plant pollen? 163.156.240.17 ( talk) 10:42, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Wiktionary describes dander as originating from mammals, whereas this article mentions shed feather particles. Is there another word for non-mammalian epidermal debris? 193.132.145.152 ( talk) 08:55, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
"Cat dander" is actually a specific protein in their saliva. The saliva dries and the protein becomes dust that some humans are allergic to. Some cats are born without that protein in their saliva and there have been attempts to breed for that trait to produce hypoallergenic pets. 69.237.121.145 ( talk) 18:55, 4 October 2010 (UTC)Tom
Why is there a see also to Dog Allergy? This Wiki topic is on dogs' allergies, not allergies to dogs umlike the Wiki topic Cat Allergy, which is about allergies to cats. Rebecca ( talk) 07:28, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
The external link to the Discovery Channel article has broken:
http://health.discovery.com/centers/articles/articles.html?chrome=c02&article=LC_72¢er=p01
Discovery.com now redirects this link to an index page of unrelated content.
The Internet Archive (web.archive.org) shows that as of 2012, discovery.com was actively redirecting the first link to
http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/allergies/animal-allergies/animal-dander.htm
which is where a verbatim copy of the page can be found today.
As I am unfamiliar with the current Wikipedia procedure for correcting broken links, I'll leave this for an expert.
-- 174.28.159.150 ( talk) 03:10, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
"An older etymology has it that dander is a dialect synonym of dandruff, possibly from Yorkshire in England." Older than what? I presume the article had some (spurious?) etymology that has been edited out. Wiktionary has dandruff for the origin.-- Alkhowarizmi ( talk) 10:12, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
has a line "airmole? dander.". It doesn't make much sense in context. Arlo James Barnes 09:12, 19 March 2024 (UTC)