Churchgoers less like to be cat people.

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According to today's times. I'm pretty sure they've got it wrong.
I'm a practicing Catholic and have two, my parents are Anglicans and have one.
Many priests I know have cats and I managed to convert a bishop friend into a devoted cat slave. After being adamant he wasn't having a cat. He has two!

I'm a churchgoer and have a cat.

A previous neighbour used to say “dog people like to be part of the pack, cat people like to follow their own path”. So on that way of thinking I could see how being a church goer (or liking joining any sort of group organisation) might be more dog person than cat person.

dog people like to be part of the pack, cat people like to follow their own path

That rings so true to me. Wow.

dog people like to be part of the pack, cat people like to follow their own path

hmm, we have both and I have an irrational hatred of anyone who wants to join me when I am walking my dog, it is a veyr solitary thing I do!

Apparently it's because having cats as something to serve/ worship takes the place of God/Religion.

I am not a churchgoer and I DO have cats. So clearly it is true. However, I like to think my cats are here to worship ME rather than the other way round. I'm not sure what that bombshell does to the theory... Maybe my CATS are religious??!

We have quiet a few dogs who come to services in the church I go to. Fewer cats.

We are church-goers with guinea pigs, I like cats but dh is allergic and we just don't have the time to devote to a dog so neither features on our radar so I am not sure what if anything that says about us.

Catholic raised and have had cats, dogs, gerbils, rabbit, guinea pig, budgie and fish ... dunno what that says about me !! Definitely preferred my dogs though .

I haven't read the article but as a side note I'm Pagan and have cats (and dogs) and every Pagan I know has cats.

A lapsed Catholic with an accidental (as in he decided to move in, thereby considerably cheesing off his previous household) cat. Make of that what you will.

Seriously, we believe in “one holy, catholic & apostolic church”: what more do these people want from us?! (And for the record I’ve two cats; my daddy & stepmother have a cat [mixed marriage, don’t know which side of things the cat comes down on ]; my granny had a cat; & my other grandparents had cats [though they weren’t much for church-going, well not by the time I was on the scene & I think even before that it was mostly granny’s sisters who saw to taking Daddy to Mass etc... but still...])

Anyone else feel there should be a census conducted...

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcats might have something to say about this!

I'm an atheist who is sadly catless but longs for a cat-God (or two - Monotheism is so last Millenium) to serve.

I also love stories of church cats.

Make of that what you will.

We're churchgoers and will be getting a cat as soon as we have our own house.
Dogs remind me a bit of messy toddlers, but they don't get better as they get older!

Athiest cat owner - me
Dp athiest dog owner

we also have chooks, fish, a budgie, a rabbit

dog people like to be part of the pack, cat people like to follow their own path

What a lot of silliness. Lots of people, like me, have both.

My two close friends who are churchgoers both have cats, but in any case, churchgoers are, I’m sure, just as individual and unpredictable as anyone else.

Ooh, @MarieVanGoethem - you have just reminded me that there was an (Anglican) small group of nuns that lived near me growing up and they had a cat called 'Magnifi-Cat'

Five cats here... plus one organist and director of music, one church choir alto, and one teenage choral scholar (all human).

All the religious people I know have cats, and they're all low church. None of the Catholics have cats, but I'm not sure they count as I only know bad Catholics, the sort who only go to church if there's a party afterwards.

@mmeszyszkoBohusz

Church director of music, organist, bass, and alto, plus two dogs here

Thankfully no paranoid bassoonist thought

Practicing catholic and have a cat a dog 3 goldfish and 8 Guinea pigs

@HebeMumsnet. Wash your mouth out. How dare you suggest you are a superior being to your cats.

My friends cat spends a lot of time in his Chapel and has been known to join him for Mass. but she also trashed his crib scene, so I'm quite sure what her beliefs are!

I think Hebe is just delusional.

My church has an annual animal blessing service (always total chaos ) and while dogs are in the majority there are always plenty of cats, along with the odd bird or rabbit...

I work in a church and I would say there's considerably more cat lovers than dog lovers in ours.