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?

"Peasants, the lot of you"

I quite agree, cats are royalty. DH and I are definitely paid staff. When they want their food, we jump to attention and feed them.

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

Our elder male cat's order of preference in sea food is scallops, crab, scampi, prawns. As a kitten he lived in a perhaps not quite as middle class an area as he is now but he transitioned effortlessly year's ago. Our girl cat was a stray in the mean streets of a northern English town. Middle boy is the feline version of Harry Enfield 's "Tim, nice but dim"

Are whippets posh or working class? Or are they one of those weird breeds that belongs to both but leapfrogs over the middle classes?

There are loads of whippet owners round us- in the fine class distinctions our area is middle class with a smattering of upper middle class.

My brother has horses, cats and rescue staffies.

This is our Duchess currently enjoying some well earned rest. She has already had to walk to her food bowl at least twice today... as well as using the actual cat flap (rather then the door being held open for her) she she must be exhausted.

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

If cat's could text you back

they wouldn't!!*

Luvin' it!

This morning, by way of example. I tried to feed my kitty some raw chicken. By hand of course. Tiny morsals.

He lowered his furry head as if to say, no, not today; you've tried, but not tried hard enough, I will be back later when you have my normal fave commercial food, over and out.

My cats regularly raid the bin for food, sleep in a cardboard box and steal things, they are not middle class, they are grubby little urchins.

And I know loads of working class people with cats.

Two of our cats are upper middle class, like the rest of our family. One of them is upper class, and is above the rest of us.

My cat is aspiring Upper Middle Class!

She will only eat Gourmet salmon cake or chicken cake flavour; & won't socialise with the neighbourhood moggies despite being a mongrel from the rspca herself.

When she goes to the vet she only has the most Expensive problems... she may only have been worth £25 but she's made sure I've spent £1k on her 'issues' since then.

She's too good for a cat basket, only the sofa or my bed will do. And she doesn't poo in the dirt outside, oh no it has to be in her litter tray...

This is my posh cat (hope this works)

Oh dear it hasn't!

Anyway I'm Working Class but if owning a moggy puts me up there socially then so be it

Was this created on a random Mumsnet topic generator?

I have 4 cats. That must make me the queen

Cats are our masters and has nothing to do with the class of their slaves. Bought up in working class environment and we always had cats. Cats don't care what class you are provided you know how to open food pouches/tins and have a heat source.

Had a rescue Persian who was bat shit mad so could have been classed a "posh eccentric".