Toxo-Talk: Studies on toxoplasmosis are inconclusive

T. gondii puzzle

If toxoplasmosis was such a threat to human mental health in the US why haven’t state and federal governments done something about it? The polarisation of views on T. gondii infections is staggering. For cat haters it is a dire threat to humanity and the reason why the domestic cat should be shot and …

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‘I associate a person having a cat with them being gentler than other people’

Kingsley Amis and white Turkish Angora type cat

The words of the title to this article were written by Kingsley Amis and I agree wholeheartedly with them provided the person who ‘owns’ a cat is a genuine cat lover. Some cat owners should not have a cat as they are unsuited to the task. Many authors were and are cat owners. The …

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Poets Who Loved Cats

Poets Who Loved Cats

Poets who loved cats were ailurophiles. It is unsurprising that there are many poets who loved cats because there were and are many authors with the same feelings towards felines. It is wider than that; there are many artist ailurophiles; Freddie Mercury is one of the best known in the modern era. Here is …

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Authors Who Loved Cats

Authors who loved cats

The love of cats is ailurophilia. Many famous people especially authors are and were ailurophiles. Here, then, is a list of authors who love and loved cats: Brian Aldiss (1925-) Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Charlotte Brontë (1818-1848) Her cat played at her feet while she wrote Wuthering …

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Marlon Brando and Cat

There are some really nice photos of Marlon Brando and a white cat. In one picture there is a dark coloured cat. It looks like he was the cat’s guardian although it would seem unlikely that his lifestyle was suited to cat ownership. The photos were taken at his home in the 1950s I …

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