Cats, and them being disliked.

Why do people dislike cats, personally I love cats. Would love to see some opinions on why. I've told people that I would love to get a cat and they all scoff at me, thinking I'm an idiot. I ask why, they say there gross, ask why there gross and they have no reasons. Anyone have this happen to them/ have a reason for disliking cats?

Why does anyone dislike anything? I love cats but that doesn't mean they're for everyone. I think some people that don't like them based on ignorance of them though.

Plenty of people like cats. It's mainly dog people who don't like cats and don't know how to deal and approach them. I love dogs i think they make great companions but i also love my cat who i have to work for it's attention much more than my dog. walkingdream

i want a cat.

but they really mess with my already bad allergies.

[QUOTE="walkingdream"]Plenty of people like cats. It's mainly dog people who don't like cats and don't know how to deal and approach them. I love dogs i think they make great companions but i also love my cat who i have to work for it's attention much more than my dog. MrGeezer

This is such bologna. People that say cats don't give attention or are solitery either haven't owned cats or raised them poorly. They don't jump all over you every time you get up to go to the bathroom like dogs but that's a good thing. My cats follow me all over the house, wait for me by the door when I get home, sleep with me, etc. Pirate700

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"][QUOTE="walkingdream"]Plenty of people like cats. It's mainly dog people who don't like cats and don't know how to deal and approach them. I love dogs i think they make great companions but i also love my cat who i have to work for it's attention much more than my dog. Pirate700

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]This is such bologna. People that say cats don't give attention or are solitery either haven't owned cats or raised them poorly. They don't jump all over you every time you get up to go to the bathroom like dogs but that's a good thing. My cats follow me all over the house, wait for me by the door when I get home, sleep with me, etc. MrGeezer

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]This is such bologna. People that say cats don't give attention or are solitery either haven't owned cats or raised them poorly. They don't jump all over you every time you get up to go to the bathroom like dogs but that's a good thing. My cats follow me all over the house, wait for me by the door when I get home, sleep with me, etc. MrGeezer

it's the old nature vs nurture argument.  In the wild you may be right, but in domestic situations it often tends not to be the case.

[QUOTE="dave123321"] Maybe you're part cat.MrGeezer

Cats are disliked because they are awful creatures.

This is such shlt. I've had cats for 27 years and know how they behaive. Maybe the cats you've had don't like you but every cat I've owned has aways wanted to be where the people are, wait for me to get home from wherever I am, play fetch like a dog, etc. And you can tell when a cat is giving you attention out of love. You've either never owned cats are were a shltty owner. End of story.

Pirate700

Geezer just mad cats don't like him. I've had a couple cats and their affection has almost always been incredibly genuine. SaintLeonidas

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This is such shlt. I've had cats for 27 years and know how they behaive. Maybe the cats you've had don't like you but every cat I've owned has aways wanted to be where the people are, wait for me to get home from wherever I am, play fetch like a dog, etc. And you can tell when a cat is giving you attention out of love. You've either never owned cats are were a shltty owner. End of story.

MrGeezer

You can't really be this ignorant. Good lord. You're usually a great poster, but what you're posting about cats in here is some of the dumbest crap I've ever heard. :lol:Pirate700

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]You can't really be this ignorant. Good lord. You're usually a great poster, but what you're posting about cats in here is some of the dumbest crap I've ever heard. :lol:MrGeezer

[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]Geezer just mad cats don't like him. I've had a couple cats and their affection has almost always been incredibly genuine. MrGeezer

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[QUOTE="MrGeezer"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]Geezer just mad cats don't like him. I've had a couple cats and their affection has almost always been incredibly genuine. SaintLeonidas

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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]This is such bologna. People that say cats don't give attention or are solitery either haven't owned cats or raised them poorly. They don't jump all over you every time you get up to go to the bathroom like dogs but that's a good thing. My cats follow me all over the house, wait for me by the door when I get home, sleep with me, etc. MrGeezer

This is a common misconception.  Cats are surprisingly social.  They hunt alone, but that's because they go after smaller prey, and there's no need for a pack.

Again, this sounds like a personal problem. When a cat is sleeping on you, purring, that's genuine affection. When a cat is waiting by the door for you to get him so it can hang out with you as soon as you sit down, that's genuine affection. Don't label your bad experiences with cats as the way they behave. Pirate700

[QUOTE="walkingdream"]Plenty of people like cats. It's mainly dog people who don't like cats and don't know how to deal and approach them. I love dogs i think they make great companions but i also love my cat who i have to work for it's attention much more than my dog. MrGeezer

Bullsh*t.

Cats can be just as affectionate as any animal. My cats won't leave me alone. One of them won't get away from my computer as I type this.

From my experience, cats love their owners and can be just as friendly as dogs, and they don't mellow out with age. I had a 10 year old cat that died recently that slept at the foot of my bed every night and constantly tried to lay on my lap when I was doing schoolwork, playing games, watching TV, etc. I have 2 outdoor cats that follow me around and rub at my legs when I sit on my patio. They normally fall aseep at my feet. It all depends on whether or not you return that affection to the animal.

Bullsh*t.

Cats can be just as affectionate as any animal. My cats won't leave me alone. One of them won't get away from my computer as I type this.

From my experience, cats love their owners and can be just as friendly as dogs, and they don't mellow out with age. I had a 10 year old cat that died recently that slept at the foot of my bed every night and constantly tried to lay on my lap when I was doing schoolwork, playing games, watching TV, etc. It all depends on whether or not you return that affection to the animal.

WiiCubeM1

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Bullsh*t.

Cats can be just as affectionate as any animal. My cats won't leave me alone. One of them won't get away from my computer as I type this.

From my experience, cats love their owners and can be just as friendly as dogs, and they don't mellow out with age. I had a 10 year old cat that died recently that slept at the foot of my bed every night and constantly tried to lay on my lap when I was doing schoolwork, playing games, watching TV, etc. It all depends on whether or not you return that affection to the animal.

MrGeezer

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

Bullsh*t.

Cats can be just as affectionate as any animal. My cats won't leave me alone. One of them won't get away from my computer as I type this.

From my experience, cats love their owners and can be just as friendly as dogs, and they don't mellow out with age. I had a 10 year old cat that died recently that slept at the foot of my bed every night and constantly tried to lay on my lap when I was doing schoolwork, playing games, watching TV, etc. It all depends on whether or not you return that affection to the animal.

MrGeezer

By that logic, a dog isn't affectionate either.

Dude, stop passing your issues with cats onto others. There ARE ways to tell when cats are genuinly excited to be with you. Read any book on house cats. When every person in here is telling you that you don't know what you're talking about, it may be you. Pirate700

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]Dude, stop passing your issues with cats onto others. There ARE ways to tell when cats are genuinly excited to be with you. Read any book on house cats. When every person in here is telling you that you don't know what you're talking about, it may be you. MrGeezer

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]Dude, stop passing your issues with cats onto others. There ARE ways to tell when cats are genuinly excited to be with you. Read any book on house cats. When every person in here is telling you that you don't know what you're talking about, it may be you. MrGeezer

I was a biology major in college. One of the things I studied in my free time was the examination of dependency and acceptance of domesticated animals to humans, cats included. Your link describes the physiological reasonings for purring, an evolutionary trait cats created to allow a cat to deal with stress, not a list of reasons why a cat can't be affectionate or a study into the psychological aspects humans personify onto lesser neural systems.

There is a reason I didn't include purring in my reasons why I believe cats are affectionate. There are many other signs of affection a cat can show, such as kneading or the showing of their stomachs, among others, but a purr isn't a faithful marker for the attachment. Just because you linked to an article to Scientific American (without fully comprehending it's full reasoning, meaning you are using an article that goes into the physiological processes that cause a purr to explain the emotional attachements of a cat to a human) doesn't mean you have a full grasp of the situation.

Plus, that particular article is over 10 years old. The information it pertains to may not even be accurate anymore.

I was a biology major in college. One of the things I studied in my free time was the examination of dependency and acceptance of domesticated animals to humans, cats included. Your link describes the physiological reasonings for purring, an evolutionary trait cats created to allow a cat to deal with stress, not a list of reasons why a cat can't be affectionate or a study into the psychological aspects humans personify onto lesser neural systems.

There is a reason I didn't include purring in my reasons why I believe cats are affectionate. There are many other signs of affection a cat can show, such as kneading or the showing of their stomachs, among others, but a purr isn't a faithful marker for the attachment. Just because you linked to an article to Scientific American (without fully comprehending it's full reasoning, meaning you are using an article that goes into the physiological processes that cause a purr to explain the emotional attachements of a cat to a human) doesn't mean you have a full grasp of the situation.

Plus, that particular article is over 10 years old. The information it pertains to may not even be accurate anymore.

WiiCubeM1

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

I was a biology major in college. One of the things I studied in my free time was the examination of dependency and acceptance of domesticated animals to humans, cats included. Your link describes the physiological reasonings for purring, an evolutionary trait cats created to allow a cat to deal with stress, not a list of reasons why a cat can't be affectionate or a study into the psychological aspects humans personify onto lesser neural systems.

There is a reason I didn't include purring in my reasons why I believe cats are affectionate. There are many other signs of affection a cat can show, such as kneading or the showing of their stomachs, among others, but a purr isn't a faithful marker for the attachment. Just because you linked to an article to Scientific American (without fully comprehending it's full reasoning, meaning you are using an article that goes into the physiological processes that cause a purr to explain the emotional attachements of a cat to a human) doesn't mean you have a full grasp of the situation.

Plus, that particular article is over 10 years old. The information it pertains to may not even be accurate anymore.

MrGeezer

I understand you weren't talking to me, but I chime in when I see an argument I have some credence in. Pirate's reasoning have been mostly correct thus far, though his purring argument is incorrect. So far you have been resigning yourself to disproving everyone's different reasons to thinking a cat can be affectionate and, as a blunt approximation of your posts, claiming cats don't want to be affectionate and that nearly everything they do has nothing to do with affection. That's just simply an overexageration

I understand your posts about cats being solitary creatures and some of their actions are just a result of their nature, not affection, but cats can be, and are very often, very affectionate to their owners and some of these actions are the result of those feelings of their affections, such as, to put it simply, "acting cozy" to their owners. Purring is not a good marker, but following their owners, constantly rubbing against them, batting their eyes slowly, showing their stomachs, and kneading are. Basically, your argument that cats purring and a few other actions are not signs of affection is correct, but your attempts to disprove most of the reasons given to you in this thread so far has been wrong, and your "anthropomorphism" theory for my judgments doesn't apply to the signs I recognize from my cats: their tendency to follow me around everyehere and constantly knead me, among others.

In short, I'm simply pointing out you are using the purring argument to apply to most situations, which is just simply untrue.

well I was bitten by one today, so I think that's a solid reason to dislike them.

nice cats are pretty awesome though

you dont have to see your cat for days and you'll know that he/she is fine. Nengo_Flow

Cats are great pets and they do obviously show affection for their owners, anyone who's actually had them and cared for them correctly knows this. My cat always wants to sit by me on the couch or bed, I have a huge backyard and she can go anywhere she wants yet she always chooses to lie next to me when I sit outside. She always meows for a long time if I leave the house (she's an old cat and spends more time inside) and she always likes to sit/lie next to any human rather than be on her own, ok sometimes she's just hungry sure but usually she just wants companionship.

I understand you weren't talking to me, but I chime in when I see an argument I have some credence in. Pirate's reasoning have been mostly correct thus far, though his purring argument is incorrect. So far you have been resigning yourself to disproving everyone's different reasons to thinking a cat can be affectionate and, as a blunt approximation of your posts, claiming cats don't want to be affectionate and that nearly everything they do has nothing to do with affection. That's just simply an overexageration

I understand your posts about cats being solitary creatures and some of their actions are just a result of their nature, not affection, but cats can be, and are very often, very affectionate to their owners and some of these actions are the result of those feelings of their affections, such as, to put it simply, "acting cozy" to their owners. Purring is not a good marker, but following their owners, constantly rubbing against them, batting their eyes slowly, showing their stomachs, and kneading are. Basically, your argument that cats purring and a few other actions are not signs of affection is correct, but your attempts to disprove most of the reasons given to you in this thread so far has been wrong, and your "anthropomorphism" theory for my judgments doesn't apply to the signs I recognize from my cats: their tendency to follow me around everyehere and constantly knead me, among others.

In short, I'm simply pointing out you are using the purring argument to apply to most situations, which is just simply untrue.

WiiCubeM1

[QUOTE="Nengo_Flow"]you dont have to see your cat for days and you'll know that he/she is fine. Pirate700

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[QUOTE="Nengo_Flow"]you dont have to see your cat for days and you'll know that he/she is fine. MrGeezer