{"id":26273,"date":"2012-02-10T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/crazy-cat-drives-cat-owner-crazy.html"},"modified":"2012-02-10T23:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T06:08:31","slug":"crazy-cat-drives-cat-owner-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/crazy-cat-drives-cat-owner-crazy.html","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Cat Drives Cat-Owner Crazy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not.  But it sounds like there&#39;s growing evidence that the <i>Toxoplasma gondii<\/i> parasite can have an affect on animals, including humans.  Kinda creepifying &#8230;  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/03\/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy\/8873\/?single_page=true'>How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab&#8230;.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not. But it sounds like there&#39;s growing evidence that the Toxoplasma gondii parasite can have an affect on animals, including humans. Kinda creepifying &#8230; #ddtb Embedded Link How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/crazy-cat-drives-cat-owner-crazy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crazy Cat Drives Cat-Owner Crazy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,70,34],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-science","category-pets","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27531,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/the-cat-alarm-clock.html","url_meta":{"origin":26273,"position":0},"title":"The Cat Alarm Clock","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Apr-12 11:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, my. I am glad our doors aren't configured this way. I know just who would do this. (h\/t Bruce) #ddtb","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26095,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/cant-swing-a-dead-cat.html","url_meta":{"origin":26273,"position":1},"title":"Can&#39;t Swing a Dead Cat","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Feb-12 3:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"The interesting thing here is that I've seen the same basic stats used to indicate how awful outdoors cats are on native bird population. 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