Cats and toxoplasma

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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on September 20, 2013 at 7:43

.... Perhaps fairy tales are more important than we think ...

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Permalink Reply by Abi on September 20, 2013 at 13:47

It has no effect on men then, I take it?

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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on September 20, 2013 at 14:25

No it seems it can effect the personality of both genders ...

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/273/1602/2749.full

Women have the added personal complication of miscarriages though on top possibly as well as being more attracted to the idea of keeping cats.

It's really interesting because new research is also suggesting one of the most important factors influencing schizophrenia is the fact that the person has travelled a fair bit and becuase they would have been experiencing new viruses doing this - points the finger at key mental health problems being caused by virus's and not genetic per se or a knock to the head etc.

I suppose what's interests about fairy tale witches is that while they always have a cat and are a bit crazy, they never have children ...

Perhaps black cats 'crossing' your path are unlucky after all ...

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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on September 20, 2013 at 14:42

Cue lazy journalists at the telegraph to run a whole feature on this next month.

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Permalink Reply by Abi on September 25, 2013 at 9:28

Funny what elaborate excuses we make for the persecution of women throughout history!

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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on September 25, 2013 at 9:03

Didn't take long, ran with the wildlife angle from the fox rant thread, top hit ...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=what+effects+to+cats+have++on+wil...

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Permalink Reply by John D on September 25, 2013 at 9:35

I think cats usually permanently damage mice

It's also possible that people who are careless about hygiene - partly cooked meat, not washing after cleaning litter trays - are the type of people more likely to commit suicide. Statistics, eh ?

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