From USA Today: New research has disproved a previous study’s suggestion that having cats in the home is linked to mental health problems. The new study found that the suggested link between cat ownership and mental health symptoms turned out to be due to other factors, such as household over-crowding and socioeconomic status.
That is good news
You have been exonerated. 🙂
Again with the “mental health” crap. My cats are deeply offended.
Torrey Fuller of the Treatment Advocacy Centre pushed this theory so it is good to see it debunked along with corrlating mental distress to poverty, overcrowding and other social factors.
Sounds like that creep Torrey is also a cat hater. Shouldn’t surprise us.
Hitler preferred dogs. He said he didn’t like cats because he couldn’t control them! 🙂
What about Halle Berry in Cat woman…
I read that Torrey had tried to link “cat litter” to schizophrenia. I am still trying to figure that one out. Even, my cat is trying to figure that one out. Of course, I did have several therapists who had more cats than I ever did. (I have only had up to two at a time.) whose consideration of their clients appeared questionable. Linking cats to mental illness is like linking milk to criminal behavior; as almost all humans get some kind of milk product in infancy.
If anything you’d think cats would HELP with mental health. At least that’s what this site says: https://mycatsupplystation.com
