Sponsored by toxoplasmosis
96You can't tell me what to --- oh, a pretty cat!
44If toxoplasmosis reduces my heart attack risk and stress with no discernable side effects sign me up!
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Cat people have 40% less risk of heart attack.*
Cat people are also overrepresented cohorts of wealthy people and women, two cohorts who have a much lower risk of heart attack than the most at risk cohort of poor men.
66So what you are saying is the more cats I get the richer I will be?
85Yes that's exactly how causation and correlation work, go for it!
35Scientists have discovered that having more cats reduces the risk of heart attacks and increases wealth with no upper limit*
*study sponsored by toxoplasmosis foundation
9Correlation and Causation are just fancy-pantsy words used by experts to lie to us common folk!
7Gotta sell them all
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Isn't it also that pet owners in general have better health?
8Possibly. It would make sense, people with poor health who tend to also be poorer financially are less likely to have the ability to take care of a pet.
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I have 2 cats.
One of them seems to sense when I'm upset or unwell, and will come to hug me, wrap herself around my neck and purr in my ear.
Then the other one will sneak up on us from behind, jump on her back, and start a cat fight on top of my head.
I love them both, but sometimes I wonder whether getting a second cat was the right decision.50Some cats are grade A dingdongs!
Still love them all.
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Petting a cat calms down & relieves stress.
There's a 50/50 chance that a cat will try to claw your eyes out if you rub their belly, but yes.
37Depends on the cat. There's some that will let you do just about anything and at most bat you with a paw, claws retracted. Then there's others that if you don't pay attention and pet them just a fraction wrong will take your arm off. Know your cat.
18This is true, I had both living with me at the same time for years.
Sort of still do but the bitey half is more playful now (different cats)
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Your stress will reduce to 0 if you die, so
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My cat learned I can’t see when I have the VR headset on and knocked a lamp over onto my head.
24Wholesome. Except the 4th-panel propaganda. That poor woman is dead after that...
17Depends on the cats personality, some will tolerate, others will kill.
8Look at the cat's eyes! She is about to die. That's why no 5th panel
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Yup
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My neighbours cat sleeps on my couch when the door is open and he always wants me to scratch his belly.
8Nice, that's basically free healthcare.
8Yeah, it's pretty great. All I have to do is feed their cats when they're away.
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So someone better than me at maths could probably figure out how many cats I'd need to heat my with them room (and if the catfood etc needed would be cheaper than heating) ...
6I can answer the second question:
Generally, hot-blooded mammals transform 90% of the energy they get from food into heat.
So using a cat for heating your room is about 90% as effective as burning cat food in an oven.Here's some napkin math for where I live:
1kg of firewood has 4kWh = 4000 kcal
which is about equivalent to 1kg of really cheap dry cat food (mostly carbohydrates)1kg of firewood costs about 40 cents
1kg of cheap dry cat food costs about 1,20€So, cat-based heating is about 3.3x more expensive than burning pre-dried, commercially purchased firewood.
(all of these prices heavily depend on how much you buy in bulk, though. And if you care about your cat's well-being, you're gonna spend 2x more on its food)17
Does it really heal wounds and stabilize blood pressure? That seems a bit far-fetched.
6according to Google, cat purrs are at a specific frequency that somehow helps you heal faster
9One of it's purrrposes is to shake wounds and increase bloodflow. This is why cats sometimes pur after conflict; they're licking their wounds in multiple ways.
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Guinea pigs are kittens that never become cats
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