You sound like PETA.

I dont care lol they kill birds and birds help plants

Cats are the most destructive invasive species

They keep the bird population in check, making sure they don't shit up the place.

While infesting your mind with parasites

Kek.

Tinfoil hat time.

Toxoplasma gondii

I....when did Toxoplasmosis infest the minds of people?

Its said that it might reduce risk assessment faculties

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So there's no research on it?

There is

Duh

Too bad a lot of scientists have been infected. Getting horny on cat piss. Like rats

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/toxoplasmosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20356249
>eating undercooked contaminated meat
>but most people affected never develop signs and symptoms

Toxoplasmosis is the most pervasive parasite in the world, effect: some weirdos like cats

Neurological symptoms can be pretty subtle and can understandably go unnoticed

http://www.gopetsamerica.com/dog-health/zoonoses_dogs.aspx
>here's shit that dogs can give you

you *can* lose your leg from your dog licking you

Yeah keeping pets is psychologically and biologically gross to some degree

Armadillos give you leprosy

Too many tinfoil hats in here...

You spend their whole life giving them Stockholm syndrome

i mean

Koalas give Chlamydia

https://www.petassure.com/new-newsletters/diseases-transmitted-by-pet-birds
BIG THINK

they were bred as pets

Youre the tinfoil hat it seems, afraid of aliens maybe? @Goodwood of Dank™

@cachalot Kinda ironic TBH

they dont have stockholm, they're in their natural environment

Some people just want to see the rainforest burn

@cachalot

There is a lot we are just now learning about microbiology and parasitology

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/02/20/myth-mind-altering-parasite-toxoplasma-gondii/

OOF

A cat owner wrote that

Okay, tinfoil hat

`T. gondii doesn’t cause human behavioural changes`

BIG THINK