Why not? Because an Internet article said it might, possibly be a bad idea? I never said cats were human. I don't wash my cat. We don't shower together. What makes you think I wrote any of that?
None of the items listed in that article have happened in my experience to an actual real-world cat that I have seen. The article is full of suppositions. There are no actual facts listed.
The first thing that I noticed in that article were all the pictures of toilet paper that cats had ripped off of the toilet roll. All one has to do is turn the roll in the other direction, and cats no longer do that. But, the writer seemed less interested in information than in filling words for a story.
Those are links to Dear Joan columns and the Seattle PU that don't apply to my septic system that is large enough and capable of handling this. Water from my toilets goes through a home recycling system. Pregnant women who drink water at my house are not susceptible to toxoplasmosis.
People didn't invent cats, who have been self-burying their feces for a long time. Seattle and the municipalities in your links may not be configured to handle cats, but people have known how to compost cat feces for a long time without withering the vegetables and poisoning pregnant women.
I did not know this as a potential risk of flushing cat feces in the toilet. But it also seems that cats defecating outside is likely a more significant contributor to Toxoplasmosis in wildlife.
None of the items listed in that article have happened in my experience to an actual real-world cat that I have seen. The article is full of suppositions. There are no actual facts listed.
The first thing that I noticed in that article were all the pictures of toilet paper that cats had ripped off of the toilet roll. All one has to do is turn the roll in the other direction, and cats no longer do that. But, the writer seemed less interested in information than in filling words for a story.