What affects us affects cats
To put the question another way: “How does one become a cat lover”. I’ll try and answer the question. The thoughts of others are always welcome. Nature/Nuture Fundamentally, you become a cat person partly because you inherited a love of cats or probably a love of animals generally and partly because of your life …
The answer to the first question in the title (plucked from social media) must be an unequivocal, yes. Over the years that I have been managing this website, I have bumped into many instances of “dog people” and people who frankly disliked cats, falling in love with a cat that they ultimately adopted perhaps …
You will see various statistics on this topic. All are interesting and perhaps a little shocking. My quick research indicated that between about 30% and about 50% of people in a relationship with another person prefer their cat or dog companion compared to their human partner. One website’s article from 2022 refers to a …
Scenario: This is about the impossibility of an ailurophile living with an ailurophobe! Man gets good job and wants to buy a house. His brother will live with him. Both hate cats. His girlfriend loves cats and has 2. He tells her that she will have to give the cats to a shelter if …
Yesterday was International Cat Day 2022 and in honour of this day, I’m going to refer to Meta’s research on cat and dog people, which was conducted on August 7, 2016, one day before International Cat Day 2016. Facebook is in an enviable position when it comes to analysing people because they have billions …
The story unfolds on the woman’s Twitter webpage. Her Twitter username is Tegan G. We don’t have her real name. She works for the Marine Corps in, apparently, the public affairs department. She lives in North Wisconsin, USA. She was driving to work along a rural road. It’s a road that she takes twice …
“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.” Cat lovers and and those who like cats tend to be female. And they have a personality bias towards independent thought and behaviour. This is a meeting of minds between cat and human. A group organised society is alien to domestic cats while a dog’s life revolves around …
By Ruth aka Kattaddorra Thanks to Kevin for inspiring this article by his comment that he and his sister are cat lovers and definitely not dog lovers. There is no reason why a person can’t love both cats and dogs of course but most people favour one over the other. I do love dogs and …
