[politicorific]

Yes, I’ve noticed several articles in the past week on the subject. The resurgence of this topic has me looking for a presentation I watched perhaps 5-10 years ago where the presenter suggested humorously that the Victorians popularized and normalized cat pet ownership at the level we now know (having cats indoors) because they were afflicted with toxoplasmosis. The presenter suggested that icanhazcheeseburger and pictures of cats on the internet are a symptom of mass infection of people with toxoplasmosis and that people who are infected are more likely to give comfort to crying cats which have learned, or had their behavior modified by the parasite, to mimic the cries of human babies.

If anyone can find me this presentation I’d be grateful. I fear a pro-cat conspiracy drove this video off the internet.