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Title: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: Riggswolfe on August 11, 2006, 09:06:52 AM Link (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=2288095&page=1)
Apparently cats shit parasites that make men dumber and women more loving or something... Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: vex on August 11, 2006, 09:18:30 AM Sounds like a load of crap. Hahahaha...ha....sorry.
Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: stray on August 11, 2006, 09:25:31 AM Reminds me of the evil cat from Go for some reason.
Anyways, I've heard of toxoplasmosis, but this sounds a little too far fetched. Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: Signe on August 11, 2006, 11:39:06 AM I believe every word of this because cat people are weird.
Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: Sky on August 11, 2006, 11:47:32 AM Mrowr.
:hello_kitty: Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: Llava on August 11, 2006, 12:27:06 PM This concerned me, because I'm still thinking about getting a cat.
Fortunately, the Internet Information Placebo called Wikipedia has comforted me. Quote Although the pathogen has been detected on the fur of cats, it has not been found in an infectious form, and direct infection from handling cats is generally believed to be very rare. Cats excrete the pathogen in their faeces for a number of weeks after contracting the disease, generally by eating an infected rodent. Even then, cat faeces are not generally contagious for the first day or two after excretion, after which the cyst 'ripens' and becomes potentially pathogenic. Studies have shown that only about 2% of cats are shedding at any one time, and that shedding does not recur even after repeated exposure to the parasite. Seems you're more likely to get it by eating undercooked meat, in which case I probably already have it. Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: bhodi on August 11, 2006, 02:05:00 PM and apparently there's a $30 test for it, too!
Maybe I'll ask my doctor... :) Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: Roac on August 11, 2006, 06:51:55 PM and apparently there's a $30 test for it, too! Maybe I'll ask my doctor... :) I don't want to take it, because I don't want to find out it's negative. From now on I get to blame any memory problem on a parasite - can't give that up. Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: Righ on August 11, 2006, 11:49:20 PM Yes, I blame politicians and tort lawyers for my failing memory too.
The cat is watching you and reporting back to Control. Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: Tebonas on August 14, 2006, 01:51:23 AM Quote Even then, cat faeces are not generally contagious for the first day or two after excretion This problem only seems to regards MMOG players who forget to clean out the cat toilet all of the time. Sounds to me they were dumb enough in the first place then. Title: Re: Cats are controlling our minds! Post by: Yegolev on August 14, 2006, 01:57:11 PM Just stop eating cat shit or Chinese food.
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