Monday, March 10, 2008

Kittens and heart attack

Here I was shedding my mandatory semi-annual crocodile tears on the inactivity in my blog, and the futile-but-mandatory resolution to make amends to it, that I come across a cat and heart attack article linked from Slashdot.

The article states that the researchers have found that having cats as pets reduces your risk of heart attacks. Now knowing our cats, I know my wife would strongly disagree to this. And looking at some of the really hilarious comments on Slashdot, it would seem that many cat-owners do agree with her rather than the research's findings. If anything the cats seem to be hyperactive at 4:30am in the morning, thus waking us up. Now how can that not lead to stress and heart attack? Is that their sinister way of imposing on us the age old adage "Early to bed, early to rise..."?

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