To think cats are middle class?

[splendidisolation]

It may just be the people I know, but it seems like cats are a middle class thing with working and upper classes only keeping them on occasion, whereas dogs seem to straddle all categories.

Do you think I'm right? If so why is this?

Cats are royalty. Call them middle class and they'll claw you to shreds!

Dogs have masters, cats have servants.

Cat ownership transcends class.

We are working-class. Our cat is UMC.

She follows me around the flat with a look of pained disappointment.

One of my cats waits nicely for food and spends all day laying around gracefully on her bed. She probably is middle class.

Some of the others screech loudly, leave dead rodents on the front lawn, push and shove when food is imminent and fart all over the place without an ounce of shame. They are underclass.

None of them liked the more expensive than Felix as Good as It Looks Waitrose own brand catfood though.

But me, I have lots of cats so by this reasoning, I'm very middle class. But what I've learnt on here is that I will be never middle class while I think it is acceptable to sit in the front garden or drink straight from the bottle/can possibly even at the same time.

Cats are supreme beings sent to Earth by the CatLord to bring love.

Cats are gross but they are also aristocracy ... maybe clergy for some of the more rotund

Your post made me laugh, HazelBite. We have a cat flap in the back door too, but both our cats insist on being let out (or in) through the front door if either of us are at home. But worse than that, if one of us is in then they'll hover around the cat flap demanding we open the back door to let them in or out - despite the fact they're perfectly capable of using the cat flap.

One cat even sits on the outside sitting room window sill and scratches on the window to let me know he's ready for me to open the front door for him - just to save himself the hassle of having to jump over the side gate and fence. I only discovered this one evening when I heard a scratching on the window, thought that DP had left his front door keys at home, opened the door expecting to see DP and there was the cat haughtily jumping off the window sill and stalking through the front door with an "about time" expression on his face

And whippets in my o have a reputation for being MC but in actuality are owned by more working class people ... maybe because they don't get along well with all the MC people's cats.
I personally like beagles. Gorgeous creatures with a v catlike sense of superiority and entitlement.

Council estates are generally overrun with cats.

There has been more people with Cats than any other pet (beside bearded dragons), in the WC areas that I've lived.

It started to build up when you couldn't just let dogs roam and they needed actual Care.

The Cats that I have had, have behaved as said, like Landed Gentry.

Whippets aren't middle class at ALL.

All this upper/working class crossover with pets is to do with who gets the runts of the litters when the nobs don't want them.

My cat talks in a notable dialect and doesn't like cherry tomatoes. Which means he certainly cannot be middle class doesn't it.

Have I been tricked by the charlatan?

Ancient Egyptians used to quite rightly worship cats as gods. They are not a pet defined by any class.

I agree with the others. Cats are above class. One of mine has just pushed my handbag and straighteners to the floor because they were on her spot on the bed, I can't believe I was so foolish.

one of my cats is a massive working class bruiser and spent three years on the mean streets before we adopted him. He accordingly has the cautious nature and interest in laying under plastic bags and kebabs of someone who has seen the hard life. But he is acclimitising well to his new luxury surroundings.

All cat owners are by default working class, given that we spend our lives in unpaid servitude to our disdainful, demanding, superior masters.

What were you thinking, sailor?

They take over, assume the leading role, and expect and get the best of everything while fooling their serfs humans into thinking that it's all how it's meant to be.

Upper middle class.

Cozie I slipped up, her majesty is now using my cardigan as a pillow. She has definitely taken the hump after that incident.

Nope, dogs, hunting type breeds or Labradors mind you, no little dogs please.

Whippets are working class because way back when dogs were real dogs, the lord of the manor had a Greyhound to hunt with and the villagers has smaller whippets to hunt and race (even though they are basically the same thing).

Mining communities took them up and raced them informally - hence the image of a northern lad with a whippet.

In certain parts of South East and North London they are definitely the trendy dog of gentrification - along with the Doodles.

Cats - IME (of owning pedigree cats) - the really posh have moggies and the pedigree cats are bred by V working class (its a pretty all-encompassing hobby that also allows you to break even £ wise if you breed them on a small scale)

Clandestino, how dare to pull a top that she is sitting on. Find another

Cat ownership as a class signifier. Only on MNet

I'm on an Aga Facebook group. I noticed a lot of people have Barbour jackets and hunter wellies to go with our Agas. Also a surprising amount of purebred cats and the dog breeds owned tend to be similar. It's all very Mary Berry:)

Now here's an interesting one, is Mary Berry middle class?

My cat is upper class.... she is waited on hand and foot by her (middle class) slaves, always gets the best chair and makes her demands quite clear.

However like many from her class she is not adverse to getting her paws dirty with a bit of hunting :)