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TexasTowelie

(112,102 posts)
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:02 AM Mar 2016

Read this before blaming road rage on your cat

Pity the cats. They’re 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, they’ve been accused of decimating U.S. birds and other wildlife, as well as of being all-around jerks.

Now there’s this: Cats cause road rage.

That’s 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/

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Read this before blaming road rage on your cat (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2016 OP
I have a cat with bed rage Sanity Claws Mar 2016 #1
Newsflash! TexasTowelie Mar 2016 #2
Now I feel special Sanity Claws Mar 2016 #3
In the article is also a link to angstlessk Mar 2016 #4

Sanity Claws

(21,846 posts)
1. I have a cat with bed rage
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 11:53 AM
Mar 2016

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

(112,102 posts)
2. Newsflash!
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 11:57 AM
Mar 2016

If you are the one lying around in bed waiting for the cats to bite you, then you are the parasite!

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
4. In the article is also a link to
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 02:31 PM
Mar 2016

Household pets react to the news of cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii

Which is very funny

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