Sex Kittens

[Jon Miller]

it sorta sucks

I like cats, and this is not good for cat owners

(better for women than men though)

Jon Miller

[Skanky Burns]

When you make misleading thread titles, baby Jesus cries.

[Q Classic]

i've never understood why certain feminine body parts were named after cats.

this, i suppose, doesn't really clarify things much.

oh, and can i have a link to an article? a cite?

[Ecthy]

Whch female body part is named Garfield?

[Japher]

Yup, I heard about this yesterday and was looking for an article to post on it but couldn't.

Toxoplasm also can cause Schizophrenia, Depression, and birth defects in unborn children (obviously)...

This is why pregnant women shouldn't change litter boxes, and all cat owners are CRAZY...!@

oh wait, I have a cat...!

who said that?

[Dinner]

In train spotting didn't the guy's friend die from Toxoplasmosis?

[chequita guevara]

Yep.

Why isn't this a picture thread? :doitnow:

[Ecthy]

Did he? All they knew was he had his face in a ditch if vomit. The flat might have smelled after kitten because it wasn't looked after for days.

[Dinner]

The idea that parasites can change the behavior of their hosts is actually a very interesting one. I remember seeing a film which the show Nova did on the habits of brackish water snails in San Elijo lagoon here in San Diego. I know the subject doesn't sound exciting but it really was an interesting piece of science.

It seems that when a local parasite infects the snails the snails start to behave very strangely. They abandon their shells, their skin turns a bright yellow and orange striped color, and instead of hiding under rocks or staying hidden in foliage the snails actually climb out of the water onto water grass blades where they are easy prey for shore birds. The end result is that the birds eat the infected snails and then the parasite gets spread as the birds poop in other nearby bodies of water.

[Ecthy]

Thus, after a long chain of eat and get eaten, resulting in the parasites infesting the human race and starting WW3.

[Odin]

Hmmmm, this sounds like the beginning of an endosymbiotic relationship, like when a few yeas ago some ameobae were infected with bacteria, and now that population of ameobae needs the bacteria to live. These things are very common in nature. Our mitochondria are actually endosybiotic bacteria, decendants of a Typhus-like parisite of protozoans 2 billion years ago, that eventually became peaceful residents helping thier anaerobic host to deal with the increase of oxygen levels, and then the host used the symbiont as a way to fuel itself aerobically.

Finnally a thread where I can spew my biological knoledge.

[Urban Ranger]

Can you cure this parasitic disease?

[Dinner]

If it's a bacterial infection then wouldn't anti-biotics kill it? If it's a virus then you (we?) are just screwed.

[Saint Marcus]

According to "De Telegraaf", a newspaper here, it's uncurable. Then again, I don't believe anything De Telegraaf says.

[pchang]

exterminate

we must go on a world wide rampage to exterminate all cats.