Woman can't stop eating cat hair, says it's like 'cotton candy'

MSN News ^ | Januaary 30, 2013 | Staff

[LucyT]

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Kitteh Ping.

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[radu]

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!

[LucyT]

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.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I might have a mineral deficiency, one that is mainly found in pastries and pies. ;-)

[max americana]

Will she also cough up a hairball?

[Salamander]

This article just about made me hurl.

Does that count?

[Slings and Arrows]

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[Berlin_Freeper]

We live in an age where people think they have an answer for anything.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Daffynition]

Friends Don't Let Friends Eat Cat Hair.

Lisa's moggie looks as if she needs serious therapy now.

[Daffynition]

Turn the addiction into profit. Knit a sweater....nevermind...I see she's from Detroit.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Why not go for forty?

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.

40

[Slings and Arrows]

Poor thing.

[Salamander]

I'd rather

if, for some crazy reason, I HAD to.

*Much* cleaner animals.

[golux]

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Not often, indeed hardly ever at all, but once in a blue moon here, I do not have to see the comment to know exactly what it was.

[rusty millet]

Celebrate Diversity (because you can’t call anyone crazy anymore)

[exnavy]

Do you think Lisa votes democrat?