Libido increase linked to parasite found in cats?

[jansgalRN]

Okay, before you judge me, let me tell you the circumstances in which I must ask this question. I was picking up a few things at the grocery store before joining my husband and his buddies who were at home watching a football game. I was at the checkout counter and gave into the temptation of purchasing one of those trash tabloids. (Rationale: my husband and his buddies are watching a football game and I had just finished a book, so, I needed something to read-good enough for me, anyway). Flipping through the pages, I read an article about a link between increased libido (I call this a high nature--my husband laughs) and indoor female cat owners. Has anyone else heard of this. It's in The Sun Oct. 21,2003 issue. I know not to believe what you read in the tabloids, but I was intrigued by this article. I happen to own an indoor cat. Could this be my problem?

[Zee_RN, BSN, RN]

I have no idea. But the concept is great. There's gonna be a run on female kittens at the animal shelters as men run out to buy their wives a new pet. LOL!

[SmilingBluEyes]

i dunno i have lived w/a female cat for 12 years.....married 15. I can't say this has a THING to do w/my libido. It ebbs and flows with stresses, life issues and the like just as anyone's ....I rather doubt this.

Or maybe my kitty does not have the parasite? I do clear her kitty box, so it would be ME exposed. I think this is another urban legend thing, myself.

[Katnip, RN]

This is why they're called trash tabloids. Though every now and then they actually come up with some truth, I wouldn't count on this one.

[mattsmom81]

Maybe having the kitties make us more playful, eh? Maybe that translates to the bedroom for some....:roll

I know our pets can help us on many levels.

[MandyInMS]

hahaha...emailed this to my hubby..his response:GO GET A DAYUM CAT!!! hehehe

[redshiloh]

To what does the tabloid attribute the increased libidio? Toxoplasmosis...isn't that the parasite in cat poop?

So I shouldn't make my 12 year old daughter clean the litter box?

[imenid37]

My libido might increase if my husband would clean the litter box once in awhile!

[fcallicoat]

Too funny!!!! so maybe having 2 male cats is what makes my husband a dirty old man at 31yo. (he he he)

[Talino]

Pfizer can sell a woman's Viagra a lot cheaper, all they have to do is rescue those felines on death row in shelters.

Maybe it would increase libido among you women, but I doubt a woman smelling "cat crap" can get me goin... pass me the Playboy mag please!

[RN Rotten Nurse]

I've had a female cat for 15 years.............my husband would say it does NOT increase a woman's libido.

[foreverhope]

I knew something was going on!!! No doubt about it - our female cat is staying no matter how much she gets on my nerves!!! I like being the one doing the "chasing"!!!