How Many Men Here Like Cats, or Own Their Own Cat?

Wish all of our cats could have this life at home.

 

Debby said:
We also have a UD and a UC = User Dog and User Cat and we have a UC or User Chia Pet (because he's useless and his hair feels like a floor brush)
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And I sure agree that's a beautiful house for cats. Wish I could do it with Ziggy. He's not allowed outside and in a few years we'll be back in an apartment yet and I'd like to do stuff like this but I'm not sure my husband would go along with even a little bit of this. But I may try and coax him anyway.
 

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I've had many cats over the years, my parents had cats and I guess I got it from them. A couple of years ago our aged cat Cherry was diagnosed with diabetes and had to go on a twice daily insulin injection regime, she did very well on this for a year or so but sadly the condition got beyond help and we had to make the decision to have her put to sleep. We vowed at the time to never have another but over the last year we have been adopted by three almost feral strays which at first would come for food we put out but would run a mile at the slightest sight of us. Gradually we won them over to the stage were they would sit outside while we put their food down, but wouldn't venture indoors. Over the last winter they started to venture inside for a while and eventually overnight. Now we are the proud servants of three loving cats of indeterminate age and pedigree ... Cookie, a ginger and white female, Maddie, a tiny but fiesty tabby, and Charlie a black and white male who at some stage in his life lost his tail, he must have been owned at the time as the tail had obviously been amputated by a vet after, presumably, an accident.

Anyone interested in heartwarming but not overly sentimental stories of cats (and other animals) should check out the biographies of Derek Tangye, a Londoner who made his home and life running a flower farm in West Cornwall. The 'Minack Chronicles' tell the story of his life from just after WWII until his death in the 90's.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Tangye
 
I had a cat once when I was in my late teens in the city. We lived in a fourth floor apartment, but somehow she got out. She was gone about a year, and then one night I was coming home from a church meeting in the pouring rain, and found her sitting on the sidewalk. I never had another cat. For some reason, I developed a really bad allergy to cat dander.
 
I like all animals except flies, mosquitos and snakes. We've always had a dog; never a cat.

Cats usually play by themselves, whereas a dog will play WITH you and LOVE you and protect you if necessary.

Cats are too snobbish and I could never understand why they are so popular with SOME people.

IMO Dogs are a MAN'S pet.

So, to answer your question, I like cats but would never own one.
 
Having had both dogs and cats (many more cats than dogs), I can say I prefer cats. They are low-maintenance and don't slobber as much and cover their "excrement". I don't need to own a fawning creature to be happy. I have two cats now who will turn 16 on May 28th - when they go to the big catnip patch in the sky, I probably won't have anymore pets. At my age, they'd probably outlive me and I don't want them to be someone else's problem.
 
But see regardless of gender I can see both sides of cat people and dog people...and those of us who go both ways...A perfect feline example is my Ninja. Cranky about being picked up, but ignore him and he'll grab your ankle with claws. If he chooses to sit in your lap you should be most grateful and pamper him accordingly. Don't even think about dropping him to the floor. Nails in your lap can be a world of pain.

The dogs happy dance at my feet all day long, when you open the bathroom door it is the second coming, it's like that song " Any move you make, any breath you take I'll be watching you". You come in the porch from getting the mail and the dogs are beside themselves with happiness. The cats are sitting there washing their privates and looking disgusted. Totally different creatures...
 
My cats are totally wonderful, and I do love my girl, Lilly, a Boxer/German Shepherd mix. On the bed, I have hubby on one side, Lilly in between, and at least four cats curled up on me.

And he wonders why I'm so stiff in the morning. LOL!!
 

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