Posted on 01/31/2013 10:58:13 PM PST by LucyT
We know you're out there, cat lovers, but how much do you REALLY love your cat? Have you ever actually tasted your feline? Meet Lisa, who loves her kitty so much that she eats the fur.
The 43-year-old Michigan woman, featured in the upcoming season of TLC's "My Strange Addiction," snacks on a smidge of cat hair every two hours and has downed more than 3,200 hairballs over the past 15 years.
She doesn't cough them up cat-style, either: She swallows them.
The fur gourmand explains that she eats fur off the floor and furniture, but that "the best ones are right off the cat."
Video at link.
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Kitteh Ping.
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I guess I don’t truly love our 39 cats. I’ve never even once considered eating their hair. I must be a bad “mommy”. LOL!
Research that has been done on the causes of pica suggests that the disorder is a specific appetite caused by mineral deficiency in many cases, such as iron deficiency, which sometimes is a result of celiac disease[3] or hookworm infection.[10] Often the substance eaten by someone with pica contains the mineral in which that individual is deficient.[11]
More recently, cases of pica have been tied to the obsessive–compulsive spectrum, and there is a move to consider OCD in the etiology of pica.[12] However, pica is currently recognized as a mental disorder by the widely used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Sensory, physiological, cultural and psychosocial perspectives have also been used by some to explain the causation of pica.
It has been proposed that mental-health conditions, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia, can sometimes cause pica.
I might have a mineral deficiency, one that is mainly found in pastries and pies. ;-)
Will she also cough up a hairball?
This article just about made me hurl.
Does that count?
We live in an age where people think they have an answer for anything.
bttt
Lisa's moggie looks as if she needs serious therapy now.
Forty is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order.
The number 40 is used in Jewish and Christian traditions to represent a large, approximate number: "umpteen".
In baseball, each team in Major League Baseball is allowed to have 40 players under major-league contracts at any given time.
Poor thing.
if, for some crazy reason, I HAD to.
*Much* cleaner animals.
Celebrate Diversity (because you can’t call anyone crazy anymore)
Do you think Lisa votes democrat?
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