to love cats

[FunnysInLaJardin]

so many people seem to hate them. They are lovely and make great pets, treated properly.

Definitely NBU. I think cats might be the most highly evolved creatures in the universe. With just an arch of the back or flick of the tail they have their humans/slaves entirely at their disposal.

I love cats! I've got one and he is ace!

YANBU. This is why we need a [kitten].

I love my cats - even if they don't seem to be overly bothered about me. Neither of them is a lap cat which makes me sad as all my previous moggies have been.

They make me smile every day. My furry girl is currently precariously asleep on a long, thin draught excluder cushion on the living-room floor. It can't be comfy. Best thing is when my ginger boy tries to run up the slide and then slides down backwards.

Whathasthecatdonenow! Well that explains that then!

I am not safe to be let out!

Fleas and worms are linked, but worms tend to infect the little darlings that enjoy eating what they catch.

I may be slightly obsessed with cats.

Love cats! Until we got one when I was in my teens I just thought cats were cats. I had no idea they they all had different personalities. We had loads when I lived at home with DM and DF as DM was on the CPL committee and used to take in all sorts of waifs and strays that never made it to the shelter They were all different and brilliant!

DP and I have had quite a few moggies but we only have one at the moment. She's a porky tortie with very definite ideas about who's house it is. Hers of course. She also absolutely adores DP and DS, me not quite as much. She just loves men.

My big boy who just decided to live here when I had just had my son, has a poorly eye (just a bit of cold in it) and boy do we know about it - they make me smile so much...
He is rubbish at being a cat though... he falls off walls no balance and birds chase him !!! he is cuddled up with me now :)

YANBU. Cats are brill

YANBU. My cat is an evil bastard, but he is our evil bastard and is strangely loyal. This is demonstrated by him biting and swiping all visitors, ability to open doors, and then biting sleeping guests' feet. I love his angry evilness. I also love the fact that he only bats our daughter "claws in" and never bites her because he loves her lots and puts up with much hugging and kissing with a resigned look on his face.

I can't have a cat as we have a dog, but I still love them, so YANBU!

I have ambitions to be a crazy cat lady one day.

I have always and will always have dogs though, so probably won't achieve the above!

Jubilicat would love to be able to open fridge doors and have opposable thumbs to operate tin openers. Then she wouldn't need to have trained me to do all these things for her. She rewards me with lots of purry cuddles and the occasional partially eaten rat.

I love my cats. One is neurotic about snow and pisses everywhere (indoors) if more than six flakes fall,one is so nervous that a sneeze can send her intothe stratosphere and the other is an ex-druggie cat with sociable/sociopathic tendencies (depends on his mood/phases of the moon ).

They all rock and beat dogs paws down. They loathe babies but those babies have now grown into more humans "who can open catfood" - suddenly they see advantages.

YANBU

I love moggies.

My cat is a rescue kitty and has been with us for a year on Tuesday. She is mad as a box of frogs.

The ex mil had a cat that would open the fridge and sit in there, scaring the poop out of you when you went to get the milk out.

Yabu! They are gross, they make orrible smells, litter boxes are the just.so.hideous, when you enter a house you can always tell if they have a cat cos it stinks. They arnt even worth it! They just piss off on their own most of the time.

Krumbum - you clearly have friends who don't sort out their litter trays.
My cats litter tray is immaculate & sparkling because i can't stand horrible smells etc either.

So i use odour-reducing clumping cat litter - anything she's done in it gets cleaned out as soon as i see it. Then the litter gets sprinkled with freshening powder, & i spray the area with an odour neutralising aerosol. I also change the litter & bleach the tray regularly.
If the house smells of anything unpleasant then my Mum tells me asap when she visits cos she's fussy about that.
My cat is fussy too. She likes her litter tray to be ultra clean or she will actually pester me until i clean it.

Some cats are unfriendly. But My cat does not understand how to 'piss off on her own'. She follows me everywhere like a dog. I don't mind that really.

I like all animals, I think they're interesting, cute & funny.
I like most people too but they're not all cute obviously.

Funny - dogs are only smelly if their owners let them get smelly. If they get bathed & given good dental hygiene then they shouldn't smell hopefully.

You do know that your cat is just using you, don't you? They're everywhere! Just waiting, watching, pretending to be loyal pets, but really they're biding their time, waiting until we're not looking....

Haha SillyBeardy my cat isn't even trying to hide her user tendencies. She is constantly demanding attention, food, to go outside, for me to play stupid games - she's like a toddler that NEVER grows up.

I adore cats! :)

Annunziata

Leave the bastard

Cats are threatened by eye contact babybarrister. Usually, the one person in a room who isn't looking at the cat hates cats / is allergic to them, so they'll approach them as they're 'safe'. You'll have to glare in future :)

Sunny - no, babybarrister is right -

Eg. My cat enjoys scaring people. She's intelligent enough to know she shouldn't - i've caught the little monster deliberately terrifying a friend's mum in the past.

It's like my Mum - she's terrified of dogs - so they will actually single her out to go & growl at her, while being friendly to everyone else nearby.

(The local sparrows are funny - they sense that my cat is after them but is a rubbish hunter - so they literally tease her by repeatedly flying down just above her head, or landing on shrubs just out of reach in the garden. Sooner or later they'll regret it i'm afraid....)