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Related: About this forumRead this before blaming road rage on your cat
Pity the cats. Theyre always getting blamed for something.
In the 13th century, Pope Gregory IX declared them evil and worthy of death, which led to their widespread killing. More recently, theyve been accused of decimating U.S. birds and other wildlife, as well as of being all-around jerks.
Now theres this: Cats cause road rage.
Thats been one common takeaway from a study, published last week in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, that is the latest to link the common parasitic infection toxoplasmosis to behavior changes or psychiatric disorders in humans. This one found that people with intermittent explosive disorder who have recurrent outbursts of extreme anger, like road rage are more than twice as likely as healthy people with no psychiatric disorders to have been exposed to t. gondii, as the parasite is known.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/03/30/read-this-before-blaming-road-rage-on-your-cat/
Sanity Claws
(21,846 posts)He gets jealous of the other cats on the bed (too much traffic, I guess) and acts out his jealous rage by biting me.
I wonder if he will claim that I gave him a parasitic infection.
TexasTowelie
(112,131 posts)If you are the one lying around in bed waiting for the cats to bite you, then you are the parasite!
Sanity Claws
(21,846 posts)I am a parasite. Watch out everyone!
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Household pets react to the news of cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii
Which is very funny