A Michael Broad Blog
I’ve decided to do a series of posts in which I criticise people who hate cats. I do this by addressing the reasons why they hate cats and explaining why their reasoning is wrong. In doing that I am criticising them because their thinking is incorrect and illogical. The idea came from a post …
My favourite author about cats, Dr. Desmond Morris, writes in his book Catlore that Hitler, Napoleon and Alexander the Great were all fanatical cat-haters. I believe it’s true that Napoleon was a cat-hater and perhaps Alexander the Great but Hitler wasn’t. Not on my research. Some websites say that Adolf Hitler had a fear …
Of course, it is normal to dislike cats. It is normal for humans to hate cats sometimes. This is because it is normal for humans to do a lot of strange and/or extreme things. But disliking cats is not an extreme thing. It is just the way of things are because people have preferences. …
Three factors conspired to commence the long general persecution of the cat in the Middle Ages, one of which is the starting point: fear of the cat. Fear breeds hatred which feeds superstition. I am returning to the Medieval era again as I have a theory that many (not all) people of that time …
NEWS AND OPINION: If the relationship between you and your neighbour is so bad that they consistently try and poison your cat (or kill them in any other way), I’d recommend moving home. Just do it quietly without complaint. I’ll tell you why but first I’ll tell you about Barbera Minns in Cornwall who’s …
To be candid, the superstitions surrounding the black cat are numerous and they either say that they bring bad or good luck in about equal numbers. That’s the power of superstition. Completely irrational but understandable. It is only the human who can harbour these strange beliefs. However, if you believe that black cats bring …
Some people think that domestic cats, rather perversely, are attracted to people who don’t like them. And if this is true at least to some extent, it deserves an explanation. And the reason is probably fairly straightforward namely that in a room of people where one or two dislike cats and into which a …
It’s pretty well known that the great Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) hated cats. During his occupancy of the White House as the president of the USA (1953-1961) it is said that “he hated cats so much that he instructed his staff to shoot on sight any they spotted in the grounds”. The quote comes from …
