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 …
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 …
The Times reports on an incredibly disturbing culture in South Korea. Between 2018-2020 the South Korean messaging app Kakao Talk hosted a “gore room”. In this so-called gore room contributors were allowed to post videos of the mutilation of cats and wild animals. I’m told that members of these sorts of online groups don’t …
There are people who learn to hate their cats. They have lived with their cats or cat for many years but they fall out of love and then they fall into hatred but they struggle to decide what to do next. These people should never have cats because at the inception of their relationship …
There is no single word in the English language to describe someone who hates cats. However, you probably know that there is a word for someone who is excessively frightened of cats: ailurophobe. It comes from the Greek words αἴλουρος (ailouros), ‘cat’ and φόβος (phóbos), ‘fear’, which create the word ailurophobia, meaning a fear …
NEWS AND COMMENT – PERTH: A peeved and frankly angry Australian man, Craig Turner, built a device which sprays a lot of water at a cat who enters his property and which is fired off by a motion detector. It’s also linked to a camera so the whole thing is filmed for his successful …
There are many reasons why some people hate cats. All the reasons can be turned around by education, understanding and tolerance. In other words the reasons are often false and cat hating is often based upon misconceptions and a lack of education about cat behaviour. However, some reasons are intractable. Misconceptions Many people have …
