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

Cats wrote that through the "owner"

Yeah, it's a whole conspiracy, dude. We're all secretly ruled by cats

YOU CAN'T EVER TRUST THE GOVERNMENT, MAN

Except motorcyclists in accidents have been found to be infected after the fact

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source that claim, please

Not all motorcycle accidents are due to something fucking up behavior

https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/02/09/house-cats-said-to-lead-to-car-crashes-suicides-and-mental-disorders/

@cachalot my previous article debunks that

toxoplasmosis is known to change people

measurably

@SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck they are largely due to riding a motorcycle, which many consider fucked up behavior to begin with

`The authors conclude that the hype train around this media-friendly microbe may have gone too far`

Cat people write articles.

`Toxoplasmosis was not associated with any personality traits, nor with rates of schizophrenia or depression. There was also no evidence that was linked to ‘poor impulse control’, e.g. criminal convictions, driving offenses, and accident claims on insurance. `

@cachalot Yeah, your article was written by a cat person