'Cat ladies' more likely to commit suicide, scientists claim

Telegraph UK ^

[Perdogg]

Women who own cats are more likely to have mental health problems and commit suicide because they can be infected by a common parasite that can be caught from cat litter, a study has found.

[MrChips]

Cats are evil.

[YourAdHere]

This explains two of my exes.

[Cronos]

[Thrownatbirth]

Icanhascheezburger suddenly takes on a sinister dimension.

[Tax-chick]

Also, cat-hoarders often have other problems which have triggered the cat-hoarding in the first place ... like my neighbor whose (4th) husband is dying of cancer, while her 19-year-old son has a felony record and won’t move out (he does the yardwork, at least), and her daughter’s “man” has taken off, leaving her with two young children and pregnant, “Mom, I need you to babysit!”

If that was me, I’d have 38 catz, too. Or worse ... maybe 38 snakes.

[vetvetdoug]

I guess they didn’t ask we veterinarians. We could have told them this unequivocally.

[Netz]

First of all the study is based in Denmark where there is a higher proportion of suicides than in countries south of the Danes. Two, women who manage to keep more than one cat or become a “cat lady”, (some of whom have up to 10 or more) are by nature unstable to begin with so I am not sure the problem is in the cat liter rather the source of the problem is in the liter in their minds to begin with...

[Miles the Slasher]

Another reason to hate cats (as if more were needed).

[ImpeachRoberts]

Perhaps its not the cat parasites, but the after effects of all the venereal diseases they picked up while riding the carousel in the glory days of their 20s.

[rockinqsranch]

Since when is compassion, a love for Gods creatures “unstable”?

I s’pose PETA would be an example, but then that’s beyond this discussion.

[Tax-chick]

“Compassion” becomes “unstable” when it leads to bad outcomes for those it is supposed to help. Loving animals is good, but keeping so many that you can’t properly care for them or yourself is “unstable.”

[The SISU kid]

Bookmark

[ConradofMontferrat]

Evil Kitties?

NAH

[KosmicKitty]

What about men who own cats?? Do they become more suicidal??

[libertarian27]

When will they come out with?

"New and Improved~ Suicide Free ~ Kitty Litter"
/sarc

[krb]

I think suicide rates are higher amongst homosexuals anyway.

[wideminded]

it seems to me that a major reason someone might become a cat lady is that they already have mental health issues. I have a relative who falls in this category to some extent.

But I agree that there appears to be good evidence for toxoplasmosis causing problems in humans.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"I didn't write that.. honest."

[Perdogg]

Rush Limbaugh owns a cat, is he gay? I don’t have one, but I don’t hate them.