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You know what?
I'm done.
Seriously, I've had it.
There's something going on right now that I want to talk to you guys about, Seriously,
I'm so furious.
Deep breath Jackson.
I have kittens running around here, so maybe I should hold a kitten.
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Bramble said.
Daddy, don't be mad.
Don't be mad, daddy.
Foster daddy.
Not Daddy.
Today, we're going to talk about.
Well, it's basically how this perception of cats colors, some science.
And on top of that, the reports of that science in the press and as that is relayed to the
public.
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Let's let's cut to the chase here.
So a study has come out from University of Liverpool in the UK, a domestic cat model
of tri Arctic psychopathy factors, development and initial validation of the Cat Tribe Plus
questionnaire.
It basically is saying Do cats exhibit traits of psychopathy?
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Our cat psychopaths now just starting right there?
I can tell you that this is going to go way downhill.
Merriam-Webster says that psychopathy mental disorder, especially when marked by egocentric
and antisocial activity, a lack of remorse for one's actions and an absence of empathy
for others and other criminal tendencies.
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This study was based on giving a bunch of people I mean, 500 or so people who have cats.
A questionnaire.
And one of the questions here is my cat demands attention.
Hey, psychopath.
OK, I mean this my cat disobeys house rules, my cat does not appear guilty after misbehaving
pet on friendliness, human friendliness.
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My cat does not like being pet.
OK, so you see where I'm going with this?
These are human traits.
The fact is, these are all 100% normal cat behavior.
A cat.
Why do I need to say this?
The cat is not a dog that we can't hold them up to the same social standards that we hold
up
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another type of domesticated animal?
And I guess I can include humans in that this is disrespectful to the nature of cat.
This is trying desperately to put us a psychopathic hat on a cat.
The cat in the psychopath, the cat.
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And and that in itself I find highly irresponsible and damaging.
Now the press gets a hold of this thing and shakes it like a dog toy man.
They're just like, Oh, what can I now do to get more people to read this article?
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So is your cat an actual psychopath?
Take this test and find out if cats were people they'd probably be psychopaths, scientists
say.
Are cats psychopaths?
New research says Probably.
Is your cat a psychopath?
Probably.
Researchers say you see where this is going.
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So now it's not a matter of a questionnaire.
Now it's a matter of researchers or studies or scientists saying, yes, cats are psychopaths.
I want to give you some more examples of what has happened when either, you know, either
the science might have been irresponsible, but also there were times where the science
was completely OK, but the
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press was reprehensible.
I'm not even going to dignify the outlets here because all I'm going to say is that
it's not who you might think.
Hello, Washington Post.
Oh, wait, did that come out anyway?
This one is called compelling, compelling new evidence that your cat might eat your
corpse left alone.
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A human corpse will soon be feasted upon by maggots.
Also, depending on the circumstances by a cat.
In a recent paper, researchers describe the consumption of two different human corpses
by two different cats, both of which displayed a taste for arm tissue.
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For whatever reason, money was spent on trying to figure out if a cat would eat a human corpse.
Cats are obligate carnivores.
Think it through for a second, there's a dead body, that human body in the house, right?
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So if that dead human body is sitting there for a while and I'm not trying to be disrespectful,
but at this point, you know, that is to probably say there's not another human in the house,
hopefully.
And that means the cats are alone without a food source as obligate carnivores.
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What do you think they're going to do that if it was a dog, they'd probably do the same
thing being omnivores.
Once you're gone and lay in there, that's what you are.
Sorry?
That's what it is.
The other one I want to pull out here is toxoplasmosis, which is a parasite and cats.
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Yes, they are the primary carriers.
Toxoplasmosis may be linked to quote Crazy Cat Lady Syndrome as it alters brain and behavior.
Cat Lady Parasite linked to permanent brain damage this parasite could explain crazy cat
people.
Can a cat parasite control your mind?
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Do cats really make people go crazy?
It's not crazy cat ladies fault that they're so crazy.
I'm not saying that toxoplasmosis doesn't have a certain effect on the brain, but for
the most part, we were or this person was studying the effect the toxoplasmosis has
on the brain of a mouse or rat.
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You take that ball, you run with it, you give it to the press.
To feast out of the press is completely irresponsible.
And I mean, these days, a lot of these press outlets will do anything for an extra click.
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I get it, man.
We're all after more views and more moral whatever.
But what do they care?
They don't give a crap that that the cats reputations are being trashed.
It's not about us, you guys.
It's I know I'm preaching to the choir right now.
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It's about those people that we need to bring cats into their lives.
Why?
Because if we don't get these people to adopt cats, to bring cats into their lives, millions
worldwide will continue to die because they don't have homes.
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So we need to bring people into the fold and what's going on here, including this latest
travesty.
We are doing this by reinforcing negative stereotypes, destructive stereotypes.
I'm not here to trash science.
I'm not.
That's not me.
I'm not saying that this science is is wholly irresponsible.
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I've even gone so far as to give credence to certain studies that I think are completely
full of crap.
But listen here, I'll show you right now.
Check this out.
You see what I'm showing you right now.
Are these kittens being psychopaths?
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Are they learning through what is part of their evolutionary makeup to play and learn
how to predate at the same time?
So listen, here's here's my message.
Whether you are a researcher, whether you're publishing a paper, whether you are part of
the press that is is just as responsible, please think about what you're doing.
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Remember that what you report has affects and you guys out there who love cats don't
share these stories.
Listen to wrap up.
I'm pissed off because I thought we were better than this, and it doesn't even have to be
cats.
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What?
Why does the press need to report every time a pit bull does damage to a human?
Why do we need to do that?
Why do we report every time a cocker spaniel rips off a finger?
Because, you know, cocker spaniels bite a hell of a lot more than pit bulls do?
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But we don't know about that because all we know is the damage that they do when they
are raised by an absolutely irresponsible human.
But we don't hear about that part.
We just hear about the dog.
Come on, we're better than that, man.
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We are better than that.
These animals count on us.
They count on us to be their voices.
We are their only source of advocacy of well-being.
Let's go a little further than just, you know, lip service.
Let your voice be heard.
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The next time you see an example of this, let your voice be heard because that's the
only way we stem the tide of something like this.
All right, I'm done.
Light love mojo.
Hey, listen, whether you want to hear me rant or whether you just want to watch me play
with kittens, the best way to do that
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Plus, you know, it's a nice thing to do.
All right, you guys, until next time.
Light love mojo.
Remember you are your cat's best advocate.