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?

Excuse me - my cat is not middle class. She is right now asleep on a red velvet blanket. She is royalty

This is my favourite MN thread ever.

Our lady will only eat pate, makes us open the back door for her (even though it has cat flap inserted) and looks at us, utterly repulsed, if either of us fart. She isnt nicknamed the Duchess for nothing!

Nah, my cat is definitely not middle class. He's the reincarnation of a Gilded Age society belle. He is currently investigating a quite expensive cardigan to determine whether it's good enough for him to sit on.

Our cat is like a Russian noble of the post revolutionary era, forced to live her twilight years in exile in vastly reduced circumstances.

Her every meow seems to say ' ohh but you should see how we lived in the old country'

And ' ah dear, dear Nicky, such parties, so much catnip.'

I grew up in the countryside, where everyone farmed and had barns, and everyone had a few barn cats, and one or two that were house sucks and never went out past the gardens.
Most everyone had at least one working dog, no dogs smaller than knee high, unless they too were house sucks! (House sucks can be anywhere from a Bouvier to a Pug in size).
We are in Canada, so no where near the same class thing, but the cats and dogs set up is everywhere from the dirt poor to richest farms.

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My cat has private health care, private cook, housekeeper, own estate, doesn't work for a living - I'm going with at least Upper Middle.

Don't forget private masseuse on call, Bike!

Also butler to open her doors. She is far too grand to use the very posh cR flap.

"our house is a very very very fine house with two cats in the yard"

Is it really a "very very very fine house" (a manor house perhaps) or is it the attitude of the narrator that makes it "very very very fine", as referring to a "yard" rather than "acres of manicured gardens" suggests a more modest terraced house.

So I'm on the fence.

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I don't own a cat, but have visited several households where a cat has "deigned" to reside. We humans are definitely without doubt their underlings.

One of my neighbours cats either sleeps on my car when I'm home during the day or on my wheelie bin. On a very sunny day he will stretch out on my front door step. He then refuses to move and gives me a look of disdain if I want to get into my car/bin. I swear I look nuts having a conversation with this cat, trying to move him out of the way.

God knows what we are. I have 3 cats and a staffy 😂 I have a professional job and DH has a manual job and we live on a naice estate in the country 🙈

In other words, you 'have three cats and they have a staffy'.

I'd like to say that but the staffy is all me and one of the cats in particular is obsessed with him

My cat is pretty common tbh. He'd definitely be on one of those benefits scroungers programmes if he was human.

We have a stray cat that lives in our porch. He was starved and would eat anything. Months down the line with a warm basket in the porch he will refuse to eat Aldis cat food and will only eat cooked chicken thighs, prefers them warm to cold and meowes hideously if denied.

He's gone from gypsy to empower in 4 months.

Our own cat abs dog are terrified of him.

Emperor obviously

My cats are rednecks.

They go out for days on end to hunt and fish. Occasionally they shoot up mailboxes.

Every few days they pop back home to get their mullets combed out and drink a couple of beers then they're off again.

Cats are indeed royalty. You are indeed their slave.

If cats could talk, I am slave No 1. preens

Pretty sure Liverpool, in particular near the football grounds, in the 90s was not exactly middle class, nevertheless, I grew up with a minimum of one cat in the house until I left home.

I still live in a very working class area now but the only reason we don't have a cat is because dp really doesn't like them.

If we get a dog it'll probably be either a boxer or a beagle.

Dp is a graduate and a professional, I'm a sahm.

Not quite sure where that leaves us.

Cats aren't royalty though. They were once worshiped as gods and they simply haven't forgotten that fact.

Almost everyone in our scruffy Leith tenement has a cat, many to keep the mice at bay.we have the best cat obviously.

Saw a brilliant Facebook post on a vet's billboard:

If cat's could text you back

they wouldn't!!

I believe someone may have let slip to my cats that their kind were once worshipped as gods in ancient Egypt. They have never forgotten this.

Cats are always middle class...it's in their nature. Cats owners however encompass every class, I think...