Cats are Healers

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• purrtastic@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sponsored by toxoplasmosis

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can’t tell me what to — oh, a pretty cat!

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If toxoplasmosis reduces my heart attack risk and stress with no discernable side effects sign me up!

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cat people have 40% less risk of heart attack.*

  Cat people are also overrepresented cohorts of wealthy people and women, two cohorts who have a much lower risk of heart attack than the most at risk cohort of poor men.

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So what you are saying is the more cats I get thr richer I will be?

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes that’s exactly how causation and correlation work, go for it!

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    • Avessandra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And more feminine

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    • dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Scientists have discovered that having more cats reduces the risk of heart attacks and increases wealth with no upper limit*

      *study sponsored by toxoplasmosis foundation

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Correlation and Causation are just fancy-pantsy words used by experts to lie to us common folk!

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No but cats are correlated with wealth, I’m not implying any sort of causation, unlike the post lol.

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    • And009@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gotta sell them all

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have 2 cats.
  One of them seems to sense when I’m upset or unwell, and will come to hug me, wrap herself around my neck and purr in my ear.
  Then the other one will sneak up on us from behind, jump on her back, and start a cat fight on top of my head.
  I love them both, but sometimes I wonder whether getting a second cat was the right decision.

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some cats are grade A dingdongs!

    Still love them all.

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• simple@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Petting a cat calms down & relieves stress.

  There’s a 50/50 chance that a cat will try to claw your eyes out if you rub their belly, but yes.

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Survivorship bias: those who survive the encounter have lowered stress.😁

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The calming down and stress relief all happens once the petting session ends.

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  • FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your stress will reduce to 0 if you die, so

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• corvi@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My cat learned I can’t see when I have the VR headset on and knocked a lamp over onto my head.

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wholesome. Except the 4th-panel propaganda. That poor woman is dead after that…

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depends on the cats personality, some will tolerate, others will kill.

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    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Look at the cat’s eyes! She is about to die. That’s why no 5th panel

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  • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup

    Image

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• Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My neighbours cat sleeps on my couch when the door is open and when he always wants me to scratch his belly.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nice, that’s basically free healthcare.

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    • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s pretty great. All I have to do is feed their cats when they’re away.

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• gregor@gregtech.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does it really heal wounds and stabilize blood pressure? That seems a bit far-fetched.

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  • webpack@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    according to Google, cat purrs are at a specific frequency that somehow helps you heal faster

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One of it’s purrrposes is to shake wounds and increase bloodflow. This is why cats sometimes pur after conflict; they’re licking their wounds in multiple ways.

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• jlow@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So someone better than me at maths could probably figure out how many cats I’d need to heat my with them room (and if the catfood etc needed would be cheaper than heating) …

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can answer the second question:
    Generally, hot-blooded mammals transform 90% of the energy they get from food into heat.
    So using a cat for heating your room is about 90% as effective as burning cat food in an oven.

    Here’s some napkin math for where I live:
    1kg of firewood has 4kWh = 4000 kcal
    which is about equivalent to 1kg of really cheap dry cat food

    1kg of firewood costs about 40 cents
    1kg of cheap dry cat food costs about 1,20€

    So, cat-based heating is about 3.3x more expensive than burning pre-dried, commercially purchased firewood.
    (all of these prices heavily depend on how much you buy in bulk, though)

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    • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How would it affect the math if you sold cat videos as NFTs?

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    • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      c/theydidthemath?

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    • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But cat based heating has a lower efficiency, they do not turn all energy into heat.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guinea pigs are kittens that never become cats

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