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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts) Sat Aug 30, 2014, 11:15 AM Aug 2014

"Eat, Prey, Love"

Huff Post has a TED video ultimately addressing one of the most obvious enigmas of DU -- why all the cat threads?

Scientific evidence is mounting...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tedtalks/ed-yong-ted-parasites_b_5737836.html

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"Eat, Prey, Love" (Original Post) yallerdawg Aug 2014 OP

Here's an interesting link, too. valerief Aug 2014 #1

Yes, very interesting! yallerdawg Aug 2014 #2

valerief

(53,235 posts)

1. Here's an interesting link, too.

Reply to yallerdawg (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2014, 12:19 PM

Aug 2014

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

2. Yes, very interesting!

Reply to valerief (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 30, 2014, 12:56 PM

Aug 2014

This whole line of research can begin to explain behaviors which have perplexed us for so long.

You know the old saying, "Dogs rule, cats control us with deep-brain parasitical organisms in their poop and drool!"

I vote for Jaroslav Flegr to be our "poster boy" for this issue!

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