Kylee of our PoC family inspired this article with her comment about cat lovers, on another page:
‘It’s good when it makes you realise there are others like us out there’
She is right, it is good!
PoC is a wonderful meeting place for all of us who love cats but we also meet other like minded people in real life too.
The North of England is known to be a very friendly place to live and I’m wondering if other parts of our country and countries abroad are the same?
Here cat lovers are especially friendly people, almost always in the Pet Food aisle at the Supermarket someone strikes up a conversation:
‘I just don’t know what to buy for my cats today, they refuse everything lately that they used to like’
‘Oh I know, ours do the same’
‘How many have you got?’
‘Three, how many have you got?’
‘Two’
‘Oh I wouldn’t be without cats, I love them’
And so it goes on.
Then the checkout assistant:
‘My cats like this sort of food you’ve got today’
‘Do they?’
‘Oh yes, I have six, how many do you have?’
When buying cat food in bulk for local cats in care, it goes something like this:
‘Wow that’s a lot of tins, how ever many cats do you have?’
‘Only two, this is for cats in Sanctuaries’
‘What a good idea, I should do that, I’d love to have a cat but my hubby doesn’t like them’
In the vet’s waiting room people with cats tend to gravitate together, not only to avoid the dogs waiting too, upsetting the cats, but to admire each other’s cats.
A little ‘meow’ and others there with their cat baskets all look sympathetic and peek in at the cat and a conversation starts up:
‘What a pretty cat’ and ‘Hello and what’s your name beautiful boy?’
Cat lovers feel no embarrassment about talking to their own and each other’s cats.
I feel sorry for people without cats, they miss out on so much. Even more so for people who say they hate cats, what very inadequate people they must be to think that way!
We don’t expect everyone to like cats but to hate them is very unkind. Cat lovers don’t go around saying we hate dogs, anyone hating any animal makes me think they are a very pathetic person. I think cat lovers are mostly very tolerant people.
It does get my back up if anyone says nasty things about cats, stupid things like ‘I hate cats because they kill birds’. What an ignorant, blinkered opinion that is.
Whatever happened to tolerance of each other and of animals?
I spend time in the cat aisle but I haven’t run into many people who talk about their cats. I met a nice lady once who said I should give them a big hug on her behalf. I’d love to run into her again but I haven’t yet.
I love that thought Babz ‘we have a special smile that we share with other cat people’
It’s so true, we do!
I remember that lovely lady and she called the cat Ebony, we trapped her 2 kittens young enough to be neutered and tamed didn’t we.
I remember her saying Ebony looked for them for a while, so sad, but they went to a much better life and Ebony ended up happy too.
I was glad your comment inspired me thanks Kylee, it’s usually De who says something that sets me off lol
Are you going on holiday? Yes your cats will be alright but if you are like me you can’t wait to get back home to see them again.
Is it a SPCA charity shop you plan to help in? I love those shops, the people in the animal ones are usually so friendly too.
We call in the PDSA charity shop when we go to town, one lovely mentally disabled lady is always just inside the door selling raffle tickets or doing a tombola, to raise more funds, her face lights up as she knows we won’t walk past her lol
I love going to houses where cats live, even with strangers there’s no awkwardness when cats are around, I’m down on the floor with them within minutes lol
Me too Nancy, I think when shopping it’s the aisle we spend the most time in.
Thank you Michael, so it does happen in London too, cats lovers united lol