[Ansteorra] Cats could make you crazy

[Tina Michael]

Anything can make you sick or kill you.
But if you are going to keep pets, any kind of pets, you must keep your and
their environment clean. If you cannot do this you might want to rethink
being a pet owner.
 Tina
loves pets
has pets
takes care of them and her people

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:37 AM, katherine watson
<katherin.watson at att.net>wrote:

> Good Sir,
>
> I beg to differ with your findings (the article). After a half century of
> living, I have had cats living  with me all my life, especially as a child.
> I
> have never had a problem with cats living with me. In fact, all of my
> family
> owns cats and have done so for many years.
>
> This attitude reflects on individuals who dislike cats or hate them. That
> is the
> same attitude that much of Europe and the British Isles had during the
> duration
> of the annual cycles of the Black Plague. The people superstiously,
> believed
> that cats were evil, because they were supposedly associated with witches.
> Many
> of them thought that the cats brought the plague, so they killed the cats.
> Tragically, that was a mistake, because the cats were keeping the rodent
> population down (who were in reality bringing the contaminated fleas into
> Europe
> and the British Isles). Where the cats were destroyed, the rodents
> flourished
> and so did the plague. Where the cats flourished, the rodent population was
> curtailed and so was the incidence of plague.
>
> I like cats, because they are great companions, clean and can walk
> themselves to
> their litter boxes. I am a cat person and proud to be one. Blessings to
> Duchess
> Willow and her love for cats.
>
> I apologize to the Kingdom of Ansteorra for my long winded speech. I will
> now
> step off my soap box and let someone else have the floor. This was my own
> opinion and is not the official opinion of my Barony, Baronage or the
> populace
> of the Barony.
> May all in the Kingdom have a Great Weekend and hope to see many
> gentles of the
> Kingdom at the Ansteorran Heraldic and Scribal Symposium tomorrow.
>
>
> Yours In Service,
>
> Lady Caitilin inghean Ronain ui Cheallaigh
> Sentinel Pursuivant, Barony of Stargate
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Angus MacKnochard <glnn_jhn at yahoo.com>
> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Fri, July 29, 2011 10:40:03 AM
> Subject: [Ansteorra] Cats could make you crazy
>
> All of this talk of Animal Hording reminded me of this article.
>
>
> Recent epidemiologic studies indicate that infectious agents may contribute
> to
> some cases of schizophrenia. In animals, infections with Toxoplasma gondii
> can
> alter behavior and neurotransmitter function. In humans, acute infection
> with
> the cat virus "T. gondii" can produce psychotic symptoms similar to those
> displayed by persons with schizophrenia. Two other studies found that
> exposure
> to cats in childhood was a risk factor for the development of
> schizophrenia.
>
> Since 1953, a total of 19 studies of T. gondii antibodies in persons with
> schizophrenia and other severe psychiatric disorders and in controls have
> been
> reported; 18 reported a higher percentage of antibodies in the affected
> persons;
> in 11 studies the difference was statistically significant.
>
>
> http://schizophrenia.com/prevention/cats.html
>
>
> Angus MacKnochard Bagadur
> ANDA GDH
> KSCA
> CSS LXVIII,
>
>
> snerta er vald
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