If you’re a cat parent, who’s planning to become a parent to a human baby – it’s important to know about a disease called Toxoplasmosis. Now, before you go and get rid of your cat because you’re pregnant, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has concluded that there are relatively few cases of Toxoplasmosis in […]
Most feline infectious diseases affect only cats (and most human infectious diseases affect only humans) but as a cat parent, you should be aware that some diseases can be transmitted between cats and people. These are called zoonotic diseases. Ringworm Although the name suggests it, ringworm isn’t caused by a worm at all! It’s actually a fungal infection that
You may recall a study that went viral a few years ago that said sharing your home with cats quite literally could make you crazy. (We didn’t actually publish this because we thought it was rubbish.) The study, by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, President of the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, implied that the parasite Toxoplasma
