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Cat Parasites Infect Otters
Peter T Ermit writes "In an article in the International Journal of Parasitology, a team of scientists links the deaths of sea otters to T. gondii, a parasite found almost exclusively in cat feces. (The above link goes to a technical abstract; this is a more understandable popular version.) It seems that the parasite got into the ocean through waste water, and wound up infecting the otters' brains. So think twice before flushing that kitty litter."
Mad Kitty Disease
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
Who the hell does that? I don't even know how one would go about doing that without creating a new space-visible body of water in one's bathroom.
Cat poop, maybe. But the litter itself? That's just a bad idea.
*everything* is Orwellian to cats.
Yo, ho! Yo, Dude!
Don't tell my cat
or he get more attitude!
Save da cuffs, save da blotter!
Now my cat be doing pokey
'cause he kill a fucking otter?
So nerds, so brats
Ja, best ya be salutin'
when you see my bad-ass cat!
Woo, too much diet Coke today.
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
This reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, where Arthur Dent wakes up one morning, and eats a moldy sandwich that just hapens to cure him of some virus he picked up in some swamp on an alien world. I mean, how do we know that our cat shit hasn't saved an endangered species of seahorse or something? I mean, look on the bright side ;-)
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"This statement is false."
Blame it on the people who are toilet-training(http://www.karawynn.net/mishacat/t oilet.shtml) their cats.
But just think! We may have saved the world from a hostile otter takeover!
The points of the article are: a) otters are dying of a parasitic infection. b) this parasite is found almost exclusively in cat feces. c) otters are more likely to be infected near sources of waste water runoff. The authors then conclude that cat fecal contamination of waste water is a likely culprit of otter deaths. I think that's a story. Why don't you?
They otter use condoms when in love with a cat.
YEah, yeah. I know. Mod me down, I dont care anymore, now that they took away my mod numbers and gave me this damn good thing.
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
oh no! our cats'hit killed some otters, what about nasa using ultralowfrequency sonar which blows up whales eardrums and causes them to be beached?
brings a whole new meaning to green katsup...wait no it doesn't.
Walk with Music;
Cats are simply evil... You come home, your kernel has been recompiled and your logs are gone... Worse part of it is that the cat will try to blame it on your dog.
"No association was found between seropositivity to T. gondii and human population density or exposure to sewage."