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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
The Atlantic ^ | Feb 2012 | Kathleen McAuliffe

Posted on 02/10/2012 3:28:07 PM PST by Mike Darancette

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To: AlexW

I’ve been here in the Czech Republic for going on 11 years now......well, I was in Germany for 18 months. I like it here. The Philippines seems like a good place to live as well; I’ve looked into it.

As for me, no cats. Goldfish.

Hopefully, they won’t take over my brain.


21 posted on 02/10/2012 4:47:45 PM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: thoolou

The writer William Faulkner liked to claim the Chinese believed that “cats used to rule the world, until they realized how foolish it all was and turned it over to humans, which is why they look at us the way they do.”


22 posted on 02/10/2012 4:51:18 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Mike Darancette

Interesting article. Loved the comments:

Bart_Savagewood:

The author makes it quite clear in the first few paragraphs that this is not settled science and is still highly controversial and warrants further study.

Rather than being anti-pet, my reading of the article can be summarized as thus: Poop contains a lot of pathogens - many of which we have little-to-no understanding of. Be careful when handling poop.

Arkitux in reply to Bart_Savagewood

Well, there goes that hobby.


23 posted on 02/10/2012 5:12:06 PM PST by sockmonkey
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You have absolutely NO idea of the mind control and human domination capabilities of large canines. I’m the adoptive dog father of an 85 lb. Pitador and a 95 lb. Great Dane. In spite of my inherent firmness in dealing with dogs, they dominate me and my household. Pray for me.


24 posted on 02/10/2012 5:32:43 PM PST by libstripper
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To: Mike Darancette

More like the reason the leftists act like the rats they are.


25 posted on 02/10/2012 5:47:08 PM PST by Hell to pay
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To: SandRat
Sounds like a scene from a script in a Star Trek movie, I belive it was The Wrath of Kahn.

Cats!

26 posted on 02/10/2012 5:51:38 PM PST by 6SJ7 (Meh.)
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To: Mike Darancette
I've always been of the opinion that people who have cats are, in fact crazy. But I had always assumed that their craziness caused them to acquire cats; not that the fact that they had cats caused them to be crazy.

My dogs have never pondered which is the cause and which as the result; they merely consider cats to be tasty snacks.


27 posted on 02/10/2012 6:14:54 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina ("Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." -- Aesop)
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28 posted on 02/10/2012 6:23:30 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Mike Darancette

People are just finding out about this but cats have always known it to be true.

That is why they wait for you to go to sleep then wipe their butts on your tables, kitchen counters and all over your kitchen sinks.

Sometimes even on your face if they can get away with it.

They truly are vile creatures.


29 posted on 02/10/2012 6:41:13 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Now we know why, almost every time a Rat shows up on FR, it runs right into the Viking Kitties' jaws.

LOL!!!

30 posted on 02/11/2012 10:40:48 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("The facts of life are Tory." -- Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Iron Munro

They also produce a treat that is very attractive to dogs, so even they fall under the spell.


31 posted on 02/11/2012 4:15:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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