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Milton M. McAllister, a professor of pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, recommends keeping cats indoors to decrease the transmission of Toxoplasma gondii. Domestic cats and some wild cats are the only animals that can transmit the parasite by shedding the organism in feces.

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