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Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health
Ant tips us to a story making the rounds lately, based on reporting a couple of weeks old, that owning a cat could cut your heart attack risk by one third. No such effect was seen from dog ownership, but the researchers say that could be because there weren't enough dog owners in the study population to provide meaningful statistics. The study: "...analyzed data on 4,435 Americans, aged 30 to 75, who took part in the federal government's second National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, which ran from 1976-1980. According to the data in the survey, 2,435 of the participants either owned a cat or had owned a cat in the past, while the remaining 2,000 had never done so. [The] team then tracked rates of death from all causes, including heart and stroke. Cat owners 'appeared to have a lower rate of dying from heart attacks' over 10 years of follow-up compared to feline-free folk..."
Well... it's something new I guess....
(awaits inevitable corrections)
Obviously, they died of furball before they were old enough to have a heart attack.
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Pussy is actually good for you, while having a bitch in your life makes no noticible improvements.
They obviously have never seen our cats. Stress reducers? I don't think so.
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Does this mean that I can use my health insurance to pay for cat food?
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Catbert, evil director of human resources.
Catbert: Did you know that petting a cat results in lower blood pressure?
(employee begins to rub catbert's tummy)
Catbert: HA HA, IT'S A HEALTH BENEFIT! NOW I WILL CUT DOWN EVERYONE'S SALARY!!!
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So, IOW, anything you might do to relieve stress -- pet your cat (or other pet), exercise (good one with additional proven health and heart benefits), shoot your mother-in-law, etc, is good for your heart.
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Does this include looking at hundreds of Lolcat pictures a day?
Hey! Look a Distraction!
Dogs are dumb, slobbering beasts that make you take them outside to take a shit.
Rather than shitting in (hopefully) a single location and forcing you to clean it up on a near daily basis lest it offend their senses and they decide the clean, but unfolded, laundry would be a better target?
I do have cats, and I tend to think I would rather have cats than dogs. Besides, that is what I have a human spawn for.
Puppies/Human Larvae are cute.
One must be ever vigilant to protect your property from puppies/spawn
One must clean up the little.... treats left behind.
Neither listen well to verbal commands
Neither will shovel the drive or mow the lawn
Clearly children are nothing more than hairless dogs that have developed the ability to walk upright.
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You mean Guardianship. Humans need to discard the notion that "animals" are nothing more than property. You don't own an animal anymore than you would own your children. They have personalities, wants and needs just like us humans. I have three cats, they are family members, not some inanimate objects that act like they're alive.
"I bow to no man" - Riddick
Besides, as one of the posters to my journal already noted, cats age people like people age wine and cheese.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Given a choice between an early death or living with a cat, I'll take death.
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Obviously, we must find out... for Science!
Q: How do you make a cat sound like a dog?
A: Spray him with lighter fluid. One match and he goes WOOF.
Q: How do you make a dog sound like a cat?
A: Dip him in liquid nitrogen and cut him in a band-saw. He goes MMMMMEEEEOOOWWW.
(Funnier with good sound effects.)
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And we understand that "correlation does not equal causation" is a caution given to ignorant students to prevent them from assuming causation in cases where it doesn't belong. It is not a hard anf fast rule, and should not be used to discuss subjects like this as it's too simplistic to be useful (unless you are a freshman science student).
In other words, it's a nice saying to help students remember to be diligent, but HAS NO BEARING WHATSOEVER on real research. Researchers make great efforts to deal with confounding variables because they know what they're doing. This stud did not indicate which confounding variables were controlled for, so your assumption about causality is impossible to support with the given evidence.
We also understand that very often, a correlation does in fact indicate some kind of causal relationship.
So, the fact that you don't know why it's a troll is exactly why it's troll, he has the same deficiency of understanding that you do.
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Nothing is foolproof, fools are too ingenious. - Murphy
Cats are tastier with garlic, whereas dogs tend to have a muskier aftertaste. Both go well with a nice Chardonnay.
I never use cat. I use less, awk, head, tail, grep and sometimes vim to discover the contents of my log files.
But now there's proof that cat can help my heart... !
Life would be easier if I had the source code.
Everyone knows that you don't own a cat, the cat owns you. We don't even need "In Soviet Russia" on this one, it's pretty much universal.
Sure, I am known to purr on occasion.
--Rob
Towards the Singularity.
Call 911? Heck, my cats can do that and perform CPR while administering Last Rites, just in case.
Seriously...my theory is that cats help reduce vermin about the house, thus contributing to the health of their designated care-providers. (Heaven forfend that anyone should ever think he owns a cat.) My house used to be overrun with those huge cockroaches that they call "palmetto bugs" here in Texas. After I got the cats, no more roaches (but fat and happy cats). They go after anything that wiggles, scuttles, or flies around. (Though their success rate on flying prey leaves something to be desired. Hmm note to self: must look into breeding flying cats.)
The association between humans and cats has been a long and mutually beneficial one. The only major issue to trouble this partnership was the invention of doors by an unknown carpenter circa 3800 B.C. (oddly enough, the unlucky inventor suffered a fatal fall down a steep stairway soon after filing the patent). Ever since, cats have been sitting in front of doors and meowing. Most people think the cat wants out (or in), but not so: the cat is demanding that all doors everywhere be permanently removed. A closed door is an offense to all cat-kind.
Great men are almost always bad men--Lord Acton's Corollary
Clearly children are nothing more than hairless dogs that have developed the ability to walk upright.
Meet little Billy!
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