Cindy and I have cats. We have had cats since before we were married. I enjoyed the cats because, if for no other reason, I didn’t clean out the cat box.
That was Cindy’s “job”. Then Cindy got pregnant. The first thing the doctor told her was NOT to clean the cat box for fear she would get “Toxoplasma gondii”.
The “kitty litter cleaner” became my daily job. Funny, she hasn’t been pregnant for over 36 years and yet, I’m still the kitty litter cleaner!
T. gondii is a mostly harmless parasite that gets into the body through either contaminated meat or the wastes of cats. Cats are the major carrier of this parasite. They get the parasite from eating infected mice, birds, etc. The parasite forms cysts in the meat of the animal it infects. Once in the stomach of the cat, the cysts dissolve releasin…