Am I being ridiculous being bothered by this?
We have a supermarket, which is found in a small outside precinct just off a high street.
There is a local cat, who seems to spend a lot of time within the precinct and has taken to going into the supermarket. He has taken on this local celebrity status and it seems like every other day there are pictures of the cat sitting on produce (all sealed admittedly - the last couple I have seen is of him sitting on a large pack of tinned vegetables and of him lying on a gigantic - bigger than him- pack of flour).
I’m not a cat person at all. Don’t feel comfortable around them since as a child when sitting on a friend’s sofa, a cat jumped on me from behind and landed on my head. I can actually laugh about that now, but I am still jumpy around them.
Anyway, I see these posts of the cat and do a little shake of my head and generally move on. (I shake my head because I don’t see the appeal. And also because I thought, it’s a bit unhygienic allowing it on the food.)
But last week, I opened a couple of the posts to see that a couple of people had commented that it doesn’t seem right the cat is on the food. However most people shot them down with “the food is sealed”, “shop somewhere else”, “he only wants fuss” and “he is beautiful” etc.
It also seems from what I’ve read that the supermarket do nothing to shoo him out when he ventures inside.
So, oh wise cat and non cat lovers of MN, would it bother you? Seeing a cat on produce? And the shop not doing anything to discourage it?
As I said, I don’t have a love affair with cats so I don’t have a natural centre with this!