{"id":3442,"date":"2005-07-11T18:55:13","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T01:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/11\/dangerrrr-cats-could-alter-your-personality-health-times-online\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T18:55:13","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T01:55:13","slug":"dangerrrr-cats-could-alter-your-personality-health-times-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/dangerrrr-cats-could-alter-your-personality-health-times-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerrrr: cats could alter your personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,8122-826557_1,00.html\">Uh-oh:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>THEY may look like lovable pets but Britain\u2019s estimated 9m domestic cats are being blamed by scientists for infecting up to half the population with a parasite that can alter people\u2019s personalities.<\/p>\n<p>The startling figures emerge from studies into toxoplasma gondii, a parasite carried by almost all the country\u2019s feline population. They show that half of Britain\u2019s human population carry the parasite in their brains, and that infected people may undergo slow but crucial changes in their behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Infected men, suggests one new study, tend to become more aggressive, scruffy, antisocial and are less attractive. Women, on the other hand, appear to exhibit the \u201csex kitten\u201d effect, becoming less trustworthy, more desirable, fun-loving and possibly more promiscuous.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, for those who draw glib conclusions about national stereotypes, the number of people infected in France is much higher than in the UK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to kill the damn cat.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh-oh: THEY may look like lovable pets but Britain\u2019s estimated 9m domestic cats are being blamed by scientists for infecting up to half the population with a parasite that can alter people\u2019s personalities. The startling figures emerge from studies into toxoplasma gondii, a parasite carried by almost all the country\u2019s feline population. They show that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/dangerrrr-cats-could-alter-your-personality-health-times-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dangerrrr: cats could alter your personality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Tw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}