Owning cats....a suicide risk?

[British Red]

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/07July/Pages/toxoplasmosis-in-cat-faeces-and-suicide-risk.aspx

“Cat ladies are more likely to commit suicide,” The Daily Telegraph states,
evoking images of sad and lonely self-harming spinsters surrounded by hordes of
meowing kitties. The reality is somewhat different.

The Telegraph’s story is based on a study that found that Danish mothers were
more likely to have developed antibodies to the parasite Toxoplasma gondii if
they self-harmed at a later date

See told you they were evil vermin!

 

[Elen Sentier]

Round objects but then, of course, I'm biased and so very likely to cut my own throat :swordfigh:viking:

 

[British Red]

Round objects but then, of course, I'm biased and so very likely to cut my own throat :swordfigh:viking:

It is a scientific study .................

 

[Toddy]

Uhuh.......I'd like to see the parameters for it though.....and who paid for it.

Dog dirt and the worms in bairns eyes type photos changed public opinion enough to mean that dog fouling is now fined if not cleared up......going to be hard doing that with cats though. Different beast altogether.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Retired Member southey]

Uhuh.......I'd like to see the parameters for it though.....and who paid for it.

Dog dirt and the worms in bairns eyes type photos changed public opinion enough to mean that dog fouling is now fined if not cleared up......going to be hard doing that with cats though. Different beast altogether.

cheers,
Toddy

Very true, perhaps we should just ban them outright :theyareon

 

[British Red]

Agreed - passive pussy - the new social problem

Given the biological nature of the disease, banning seems sensible. It really is akin to passive smoking!

 

[Toddy]

Nae chance they're too useful It's reckoned that's why they were originally tamed, not just because they are incredibly attractive animals....they killed the mice and rats that ate the grain in the granaries of Egypt and Sumer, and as farming spread, so did the moggy

cheers,
Toddy......who's missing hers; the mice are back in my compost heaps