What is your cat thinking?

[hayd3n]

our bengals are crazy they attack the plasma tv attack invisible mice
play in the shower
captain my 20 week old bengal can aleady fetch a toy and has they softest most amazing pelt

[Road kill]

When I left for work yesterday my cat "Oscar" climbed into my bed and was still there when I came home again.
Once he realised I was home he jumped out the bedroom window walked around to the front door an started to scratch on it so I would open it an let him in again.
Why did he not just walk out the bedroom door ?
Buggered if I know,but he only walks in the bedroom door an jumps out the window,he will not walk out the same way he came in,and if I close the bedroom window he won't go into the bed room at all,the fucking window has to be open so he can jump out an go around to the front door to get let back in again.
I often wonder who the nutter in this situation is, an given that it's been this way for 10 years I suspect it's not him,,,,little bastard.

[Robbo]

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[Blackbird]

Hope this provides some amusement: http://geoffjames.blogspot.co.nz/201...in-family.html.

The star of the photos is Annie (as in "Little Orphan.."). She turned up in our garden last year as a tiny kitten. The circumstances were almost Karma as my 10 year old cat died suddenly a few days after Annie turned up and Annie made it her business to take away the hurt. She's attached herself to me ever since and virtually ignores my wife

[cc rider]

I haven't seen my 2 fluffy boys for 1 1/2 years.


... I miss them

[mashman]

I haven't seen my 2 fluffy boys for 1 1/2 years.


... I miss them

I'm sure someone's making good use of them

[cc rider]

It's been lonely without them

They never picked on me

[mashman]

It's been lonely without them

They never picked on me

take your love to the local rspca and visit some cats in need... maybe that'll help. Or poor yourself into a bottle and steal one of the local tabby's for a cuddle.

[cc rider]

I asked my ex to keep them so they didn't get displaced. The main coon didn't cope when we moved. For a large cat, he's the biggest scaredy-cat.

[blue rider]

do not move the heater

[Oakie]

We acquired for ourselves a BIG black 'earthquake rescue' cat about 9 months ago from the SPCA. Always wanted a BIG cat so now I have 5.5kg of 'Sheldon' ... and he is just the cruisiest cat I've ever known. So relaxed you'd swear he's just continually mellowed out after a joint. We have two grandchildren who see him 3 or four times a week and in 9 months he has not raised a paw to either of them (aged 2 and 5). He does to us though. If I walk past him in the morning and I'm a bit late feeding him he'll give me a wee reminder with a whack around the foot as I walk past him. He goes to bed with Mrs Oakie a bit before me at night for pats but if she's a bit late, once again he'll whack her around the feet as if to say 'bedtime ...I want my pats!" Oh, 'paws without claws' seems to be his method ... generally.

I remove him from the bed (under Mrs Oakie's hand) when I eventually make my way there and deposit him back in the lounge for the night but if I then delay leaving the lounge too long he'll trot back down to the bedroom and jump back on the bed, but doesn't go back to Mrs Oakie's hand. He lolls at the end of the bed purring loudly and waits for me to pick him back up and carry him back out again ... never resisting or hiding ... so I reckon it's just a game he plays with me.

He's full of personality and my favourite cat of all those I've lived with in 52 years.

As for "What is your cat thinking". Dunno but I'm pretty sure it'll involve one of eating, sleeping or "who will I go to for pats next".

The photo is a fairly typical pose. He'd just woken up from a sleep on the roof of the car.

[pete376403]

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See your pic of "what cats think" and raise you one of "what cats hear"

[Oakie]

Sheldon on bed

[Akzle]

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Sheldon on bed...

jeeesus. put that thing out of my misery.

[husaberg]

Whats your cat thinking well i seen this the other day got me thinking and no its not made up.
I had heard of the parasite, but cripes see what it can do even exert mind control on its host, now that's clever.

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii.[1] The parasite infects most genera of warm-blooded animals, including humans, but the primary host is the felid (cat) family. The parasite spreads by the ingestion of infected meat or the feces of an infected cat, or by vertical transmission from mother to fetus. A 2001 study found that direct contact with pet cats is probably a less common route of transmission to human hosts than contamination of hands with cat feces by touching the earth, and that "contact with infected raw meat is probably a more important cause of human infection in many countries".[2]

From one-third to half of the world's human population is estimated to carry a Toxoplasma infection.[3][4] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that overall seroprevalence in the United States as determined with specimens collected by the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) between 1999 and 2004 was found to be 10.8%, with seroprevalence among women of childbearing age (15 to 44 years) at 11%.[5] Another study placed seroprevalence in the U.S. at 22.5%.[4] The same study claimed a seroprevalence of 75% in El Salvador.[4] A sample of 273 people in rural France was measured at 47% prevalence.[6]

During the first few weeks after exposure, the infection typically causes a mild, flu-like illness or no illness. Thereafter, the parasite rarely causes any symptoms in otherwise healthy adults. However, those with a weakened immune system, such as AIDS patients or pregnant women, may become seriously ill, and it can occasionally be fatal.Recent research has also linked toxoplasmosis with brain cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia.[7][8]

Nothing that remarkable so far other than this
Recent research has also linked toxoplasmosis with brain cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia.[7][8]


but read the highlignhted text further on.

Behavioral changes in the hostThe parasite itself can cause various effects on the host body, some of which are not fully understood.


Micrograph of a lymph node showing the characteristic changes of toxoplasmosis (scattered epithelioid histiocytes (pale cells), monocytoid cells (top-center of image), large germinal centers (left of image)), H&E stainThe parasite has been found to have the ability to change the behaviour of its host: infected rats and mice are less fearful of cats—in fact, some of the infected rats seek out areas marked with cat urine. This effect is advantageous to the parasite, which is able to proliferate if a cat eats the infected rat and thereby becomes a carrier.[29] The mechanism for this change is not completely understood, but there is evidence that toxoplasmosis infection raises dopamine levels and concentrates in the amygdala in infected mice.[30]

[edit] In humans The findings of behavioral alteration in rats and mice have led some scientists to speculate that Toxoplasma may have similar effects in humans. Toxoplasma is one of a number of parasites that may alter their hosts' behaviors as a part of their life cycles.[31] Some studies have linked latent toxoplasmosis to an increased incidence of traffic accidents.[32]

The evidence for behavioral effects on humans is controversial.[33][34][35] No prospective research has been done on the topic, e.g., testing people before and after infection to ensure the proposed behavior arises only afterwards. Although some researchers have found potentially important associations with Toxoplasma, the causal relationship, if any, is unknown, i.e., it is possible that these associations merely reflect factors that predispose certain types of people to infection. However, many of the neurobehavioral symptoms postulated to be due to toxoplasmosis correlate to the general function of dopamine in the human brain, and the fact that toxoplasma encodes the dopamine-synthesizing enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase makes it likely the neurobehavioral symptoms can result from infection.[36]

So this is the bit that blew my mind......
H&E stain. The parasite has been found to have the ability to change the behaviour of its host: infected rats and mice are less fearful of cats—in fact, some of the infected rats seek out areas marked with cat urine. This effect is advantageous to the parasite, which is able to proliferate if a cat eats the infected rat and thereby becomes a carrier.

Yes thats mind control to ensure survival
Maybe no raw meat for moggy from now on?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis