NEWS: Too Many Cats Can Kill You FYI

This is a clear indication that dogs are better than cats. But then you think about the fact that dogs eat cat shit, then lick everything. They go outside, eat a bunch of turds. Then they come inside and tell you how much they love you by licking your face.

now i wonder is the parasite effects dogs...it must. because my mom has a cat and two mini daschunds and they sometimes eat out of the litter box if she doesn't scoop it immediately...so yea.... her dogs are becoming dumber...and more attracted to litter box...like a DRUG! AHH!!!

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...though not B.S., the story is sensational. Humans are not one of toxo's natural hosts; a healthy immune system keeps it at bay. That's why people don't get heartworms, too (but we do get malaria).

If people don't know enough to keep their litter boxes clean and to wash their hands after cleaning said litter boxes, then they are clearly already displaying some sort of genetic propensity toward stupidity.

I hate inflammatory articles like that against animals. They serve no purpose except to get some asshat to exclaim "Oh my god, cats are the devil and could kill us all." Yellow journalism at its best.

The feces have to be sitting in the box for a couple DAYS to even become infectious.


Cat feces don't kill people.
Stupid people with unwashed hands kill people.

Other ways of transmission:

I do, however, agree that it may be part of the feline plan for world domination.

I swear I read about this as part of a book, short story, or comic.

...oh, right, "Peeps", by Scott Westerfeld. S'about a parasite that causes, effectively, vampirism. And so chapters are interspersed with the main character telling the reader about some parasite lurking in nature to spring upon the unwary. Cool book.

That's what I was wondering. The one person I know of who got toxoplasmosis was (I believe) the first American (or one of the very first) to die of AIDS.

Most doctors just recommend you have your husband or someone else clean the litterbox for the duration of your pregnancy. I have never heard of any doctor telling a pregnant woman to get rid of her cat. I have only heard of doctors telling pregnant women not to get a cat while pregnant if they don't already have one, because their immune systems may not have built up a tolerance to toxoplasmosis and it can damage the fetus if this is the case.

What are you crazy??? That just mutates it into a super-parasite!

It surprises me not at all how many people are annoyed or irritated by this story... how many cats have you had in your life? THEY'RE TAKING OVER YOUR BRAIN!!!