I never understood the extreme love for cats. I considered getting one for my daughter but the toxoplasmosis alone makes cat ownership an immediate nope and that’s before the cat piss/poop you can immediately smell in a house with cats in them.

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Xirdus 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Cats spent the last 4000 years or so evolving to be more adorable to humans. The reasons we love cats are rooted in our basic cognitive functions, which cats are abusing. I am not taking a piss when I say that people who don't like cats are more likely to be neurodivergent.

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dyauspitr an hour ago | parent [-]

> I am not taking a piss when I say that people who don't like cats are more likely to be neurodivergent.

“Dog people” heavily outnumber “cat people” almost always in polls. Like 44% to 18% in this one https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/docume...

Your neurodivergence argument holds up, just not in the way you think it does.

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Xirdus an hour ago | parent [-]

I would like you to expand on how my neurodivergence argument holds up if it doesn't hold up in the way I think it does. If you're about to say autists like cats more, I'm going to flip the desk.

	▲	dyauspitr an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, that is exactly what I am saying but you should calm down. That could be the toxoplasmosis talking.

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bookofjoe 4 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not in mine!

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floorsthelimit 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I prefer animals that shit in a box to animals that eat their own shit and barf it up and eat it again.

Plus it’s probably the toxoplasmosis that brainwashes us to love those furry little things.

	▲	shagie 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Plus it’s probably the toxoplasmosis that brainwashes us to love those furry little things. Elsecomment I mentioned a recent article. Scientists Find a Surprising Link Between Cats And Happiness Across 93 Countries - https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-a-surprising-li... > "What we found is that countries with more cats tended to report higher levels of happiness, while countries with higher exposure to Toxoplasma gondii tended to report lower levels of happiness," say the study authors in a press release. The paper itself is https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0357911

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bowsamic 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The main thing I don’t like about cats is that they feel like they don’t really like their owners but more just tolerate them

	▲	bookofjoe 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		To me that’s a feature, not a bug .

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michaelmrose 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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