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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 10:58 AM 5/26/2009, you wrote:
> What critters is this repellent
> supposed to repel? If it's meant to repel rodents, smelling like a cat's
> litter box would probably work, since what rodent would want to hang out
> in a cat's litter box? If it smelled like that already, then it makes
> perfect sense that your cat would use it as one.

There was some research done, years ago, that indicated that rats
infected with Toxoplasma gondii had an unnatural attraction to the smell
of cat urine - was this the parasite's way of altering brain function,
thereby ensuring that the intermediate host it was infecting would have
the opportunity to be caught and eaten by the appropriate definitive
host?  Seems like it.
An offshoot of that research also showed that women who entered into
multiple abusive relationships also had high antibody titers to
Toxoplasma.(No mention of whether they were attracted to cat
urine).

Lucky

Melissa

--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Lori Rizzo <larizzo@charter.net> wrote:

From: Lori Rizzo <larizzo@charter.net>

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] cat - the other white meat

To: fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com, "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>

Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 11:09 PM

Well, all I can say is my cat's going to be a 'catsarole' if I find her

crapping in the lettuce garden one more time!  Just spent $20 on "critter

repellent" and saw her sitting in the garden doing her thing the very next

morn..the stuff is supposed to last 30 days - I'm writing the company

because I used enough for triple the size of the plot. 

Lori

Lori Rizzo, RN BSN MBA

Health Care Quality Improvement

Pet Training & Behavior Improvement!

Maryville, TN

larizzo@charter.net

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