So cat people can’t drive well? We’ve always known this.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
"A total of 252 women with toxoplasmosis, along with 748 controls from Naples, Lausanne, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, and Milan, were interviewed by telephone or in person. Overall, eating raw or undercooked beef, lamb, or other meats; contact with soil; and travel outside the country were major sources of infection."
Cats don't even make the list of major sources of infection. Further,
"The association of cats and human toxoplasmosis is difficult to assess by epidemiological surveys because soil, not the cats, is the main culprit. Oocysts are not found on cat fur and are often buried in soil along with cat faeces.11 Therefore, direct contact with cats is irrelevant with respect to T gondii transmission, and soil contact is universal and difficult to avoid."
a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls
the dichotomy between "dog people" and "cat people" had always been interesting and telling to me.
dog people will go as far as blame you for their "reactive" dog who can "tell when your nervous around him."
not-cat people mostly don't like cats because..the cats are "rude" to them?
In a way, these are similar experiences. You are behaving in a way the animal doesn't like, and the animal is reacting negatively.
With the dog, there isn't much you can easily do about a dog who doesn't know you and feels threatened when you stand up. You're dealing with a few steps removed from a beast in that situation.
But for cats, you can probably just be more cat-polite if you actually want the cat to be nice to you. Same goes for people haha
a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls
>the dichotomy between "dog people" and "cat people" had always been interesting and telling to me.
I think by "cat person" he meant less "I like cats", and more "cat lady"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Society_and_cult...
In my experience, there are many kinds of both.
- cat/dog people who are primarily just animal lovers and take in rescue cats/dogs
- cat/dog people who primarily want to have a non-human companion in their daily life
- dog people who primarily want to use a dog to aid them in some activity, e.g. hunting
- cat/dog people who primarily want to show off their dog with pride
- cat/dog people who primarily want to breed cats/dogs for sale to other enthusiasts
- dog people who primarily enjoy dominating another species and having them at their mercy
- cat/dog people who are running a kitten/puppy mill for profit
- cat people who are themselves independent and value that quality in cats
In a literal sense, people get pets for different reasons. A lot of people get cats because they're more independent where dog owners cite "having a companion" because dogs have a closer relationship to humans through domestication.
Animals are still animals, domesticated or not. They'll get fearful or angry based on correlation of past experience just like you and I will. The only difference is that they can't explain themselves like you and I can. Anecdotally, I know my dog is terrified of fireworks, but I also know she's not gun-shy. I also know she doesn't like full face masks (like motorcycle helmets), and that she's ready to defend the house if there's a knock at the door. All of which sound relatively terrifying to the average person when she reacts to them, however, when she is actually confronted with the person on the other side of the door, the person behind the mask, or seeing the fireworks that go "bang" she'll flop on her back and ask for belly rubs.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
> Unless there's some stereotype about men who like cats I'm not aware of?
Yes, there are plenty of stereotypes about "People who like cats".
a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls
a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls