Well, that may explain Crazy Cat Lady.
I always thought you had to be crazy to have a cat in your house.
I’m sure CNN will jump on this knowing full well cats are conservatives
What a catastrophe!
Yeah and the damned cat sits there, all arrogant and unconcerned .. preening itself and purrrrs .... “yeah ... so?”
Decades ago as a young neurosurgery resident I was starting my morning with my usual first stop at the CT scanner. On the display was an image that literally was right out of the book. I called the ICU and told the nurse “you need to get the doctor to load that baby with Dilantin right away”. The Peds Resident paged me later and wanted to know how I knew without every seeing the baby or knowing anything about the patient. There are things you can “know the whole story” at a glance. Toxo brain lesions in newborns is one of them.
I believe there is a link between feline leukemia and children leukemia.
I’d never have a cat with kids. Never.
My guess is the association is due to a Pre-existing mental condition where poor hygienic practices cause higher incidence of being infected by the cat parasite.
There was a Russian study saying the same thing years ago but with an odd twist. Fatal car accidents where the victim would ram into things while driving at higher speeds. The mental condition was traced to toxoplasmosis. The article went further and explained the cat, mouse, toxoplasma cycle where the infection in the mice made them surrender to a cat more easily. The toxin was able to thrive in that cycle.
You mean if Obama's doctors treated him for Toxoplasma gondii, they could get rid of his schizophrenia and at least some of his other mental disorders? What are they waiting for? [Note: too bad this wasn't a Viking Kitty. Who knows what could have happened?]
In addition to your cats now causing mental illness, does anyone else find the following other things disturbing?
-A huge chunk of the population can now barely stay outside without meds half the year due to “allergies”.
-Ticks with “lyme disease” infest pretty much every forest and you are practically guaranteed to contract this horrible disease simply by being in the wild (unless you coat yourself in poison).
Wish I could figure out how to post an image.
Dog says to cat, “they don’t put you on a leash because they want you to run away.”
In the optimal cat-rodent cycle of the protozoa, the rodent eats infected cat feces, then the protozoa re-trains the rodent’s mind, to be attracted to the smell of cat urine, so it will be eaten by a cat. This is because the protozoa can only reproduce in the gut of a cat.
In the rodent’s brain, when the protozoa detects chemicals associated with fear in the blood, it releases an enzyme, that makes the cat’s brain secrete dopamine (the pleasure chemical), and GABA (the sleeping and wakefulness chemical).
So the rodent enters a drowsy and pleasant (even sexually pleasant) state of mind when it senses what *should* terrify it. In the case of rodents, cat urine should strongly repel it, but it is re-trained to be attracted to it.
Now, the scary part. This neurochemical system is not substantially different between rodents and humans.
So, if it was an exact extrapolation, things that people should be terrified of, they should over time become attracted to.
Horror movies? High risk sports? al-Qaeda? What *should* frighten people?
I think that when cooking Chinese food the cat strips should be cooked well done. It’s the only way to be sure.
This certainly explains my sister.
They’ve known this for *decades* but the Cat People went berserk[er] when the study was published and forced the scientist to retract his findings.
I think he went into hiding, for his own safety.
/empiric evidence in action