What affects us affects cats
This 55-year-old grand mother, Jean Diffenthal, is so fearful of domestic and feral cats (not lions and tigers) that she is scared of pictures of cats and songs mentioning cats. She won’t like the new Cats Movie then will she? Sorry I am being facetious. But, in short, it is a crippling fear of …
There is an important difference between the meaning of the word ‘ailurophobe’ and the phrase ‘cat hater’. Some people believe that they are interchangeable. Strictly speaking this is incorrect. True ailurophobes (such a Napoleon) have a cat phobia – a deep seated fear of cats (ailurophobia). They may learn to hate cats as a …
Is fear of cats hereditary? Or better put: is a fear of cats inherited? I chose the former title because people use that phrase. There is a nice story on The Daily Journal.com about a fear of cats [link to this story but please come back!]. The author of the article, Ken White, says …
A CCTV camera picked up this interesting event. It’s in an industrial kitchen in South Africa. A black lady is clearly completely terrified of domestic cats. Two cats race into the kitchen and she panics. She jumps up onto one of the stainless steel work surfaces to protect herself from the cats. [weaver_widget_area id=’in_page_adsense’ …
The facts of the matter is that people who hate cats are in fact often scared of cats which is why they hate them and the video below sort of proves my point. And these were cute kittens. It’s called ailurophobia. Look at their faces; you can tell that they’re frightened of cats. They …
If a person dislikes dogs he or she probably has a good reason e.g. the person was bitten as a child or even as an adult. In lieu of that reason is that they probably don’t like animals, period. However, cat-phobics are a special breed of person who have an irrational fear of cats. …
What would you say to someone who said to you that they hate cats? Would you (a) try and convert the person or (b) smile politely and hate him!
You could write a book in response to the question “why do I hate cats?” It is a very complicated and large subject. In this article all I can do is provide an overview. But people do consult with Dr Google to try and understand why they hate cats. What they mean is that …
