Oh, oof! My cat would have just eaten the French fry...

Truly thought our cats were the same, but I was very wrong. Not sure what the French fries did to deserve that treatment lol

On the plus side, once the Toxoplasmosis has settled in your brain the smell of cat piss ain't that terrible anymore. I guess that translates to taste as well, so the next wet french fry probably won't be such a traumatic event.

Oh my gosh! Yuck I bent you will change your ways now huh ?!

How would a parasite taking root in my brain affect the smell of cat piss?

cats release it to make humans more subservient to them

I ate a fry from KFC, whose fries by the way I find quite delicious, however one in the bag (just the one) was bad. It was like... yknow when a potato is crunchy but not in the way its meant to be, like it's almost like it sounds or feels like snow when you walk in it or something. You know what I mean? It's consistency is wrong, it's like the potato isn't cooked properly. But I was so hungry and I eat reight fast when I'm mega hungry so I just kept eating it even though I knew it was bad, and it actually had a weird taste. It tasted almost... farmyard like. Like I could taste a nasty smell or something.. or like.. I dunno say you eat something mouldy I guess.

Anyway after I finished all my kfc and my mcflurry (yes I hit two separate drive thrus lol) I then had the after taste of that one bad fry. Damn shame man. Thankful for the lipton ice tea though, that helped the taste go away.

You couldn’t just put the fries in the fridge ?

> my kfc and my mcflurry

You dropped your crown, king!

Thank goodness I thought this was going to be a cat turd

It's a common parasite carried by cats. It infects mice, then causes the mice to be attracted to the smell of cat pee. The mice loose their fear of cats and actively seek them out. Cats, naturally, don't pass up a free meal and eat the infected mice, getting infected themselves in the process. The good news is toxoplasmosis is only transmitted through cat feces and causes no harm to the cat or human that may be infected. It only makes rodents suicidaly attracted to cats and cat owners are less likely to be botherd by the smell of cat pee after being infected. There is a theory that the majority of cat owners are already infected and extreme cases combined with existing mental illnesses is what causes crazy cat ladies to be a thing.

If I knew how I would probably win a Noble price in medicine. T. Gondii is one of those parasites that can influence their hosts behavior. One of its pit stops in its life cycle are rodents like rats and mice. Its end host are cats. Now any rodent is smart enough to fear and avoid an apex predator like cats. Fresh cat pee is like a big red flashing neon warning sign to them inducing fear. Somehow Toxoplasmosis can rewire a rodent’s brain to dampen or even eliminate fear of cats going so far as to seeking out cats. I’d like to imagine it just like our obsession with big cats in one of those touristy “petting zoos” making people ignore the fact that a tamed tiger can still maul you in a heart beat.

Scientists believe Toxoplasmosis can alter human brains as well. To what extent nobody knows. Maybe it explains the crazy cat lady trope. There are at least some studies that show that people infected with T.Gondii rate cate urine more pleasant and that they have worse memory at an older age.

And also this is Reddit and I was being facetious! ;P

Do yourself a favor and look up bacteria collection on food that's left on the counter.

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> cat owners are less likely to be botherd by the smell of cat pee

This was all going kinda okay

but totally ended on nightmare fuel

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wtf. I need to read up on this.

some studies indicate an uptick in schizophrenia and other mental disorders in people infected with t. gondii, but given that brain biopsies are the preferred diagnostic method, data is not easily gathered

Just add another reason I'll never have a cat and just stick to dogs. That's so fucked up

Definitely get rid of that worthless cat

Well, I'm sure the memories from the night with friends will last a lifetime, but let's hope the taste of cat urine fades away a bit quicker.

On the flip side I've never owned a cat who has eaten a couch or everything in the refrigerator

Nooo😭 that was so unexpected