# Cats **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656 "2019-08-14T13:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/61 "2019-08-16T09:22:31Z")
My cats lick me quite often. They are obviously sending a thinly veiled message: _“if you forget to feed us, you’ll be our next meal.”_ They can do whatever they want after I’m dead. Heck, it could save my family the cost of a casket. But, I’m a sound sleeper. Coupled with the numbness of diabetic neuropathy, I’m afraid I may wake up one morning nibbled away up to my kneecaps. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/62 "2019-08-17T05:01:12Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > So will humans. Remember Flight 571? And for a dog or cat, it is not even cannibalism to eat human flesh. Yeah. And it’s not as if humans wouldn’t eat dogs or cats when hungry. We’d certainly opt for cat or dog meat long before we’d eat Long Pig. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/63 "2019-08-17T06:56:53Z")
My Siamese would NOT eat me. I’m not near good enough for their refined palates. Plus who would serve it up at the ass-crack of dawn? ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/64 "2019-08-17T08:19:57Z")
Do you prefer your cat in [small, medium, or large](https://drive.google.com/file/d/12PcKnXI6GBIttjTO-1zTQXrs1qAUV2Zw/view?usp=sharing)? Rocky, on the right, is our old big boy. The other two are a brother-sister duo we adopted a couple of years ago: Irving, the little panther, and Opehlia, the average-sized tigress. I see now that I am short of my quota. At 1600 square feet, I guess I’m supposed to have three more cats. But that would throw off the balance in our household: the cat to human ratio is 1:1, as is the gender ratio. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/65 "2019-08-17T08:27:10Z")
Here’s a better shot, with [everyone](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CP2d9cgvUrUL9c1DKj86wpXHZUto_YPh/view?usp=sharing) smiling for the camera. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/66 "2019-08-17T23:15:50Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > You need beams in your ceiling for proper Cat husbandry. > And a huge desire to be subservient to the feline royalty. Might I direct you to this [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=774847), posts 19 and 22 specifically? I can’t make any promises about any links, the thread is a few years old ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/67 "2019-08-17T23:33:20Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > Might I direct you to this [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=774847), posts 19 and 22 specifically? > > I can’t make any promises about any links, the thread is a few years old Nice! ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/68 "2019-08-17T23:52:36Z")
There are three cats in my house and for the love of everything that is holy in the world and beyond, I can’t find a single reason to like them. Nothing in my life would be worse if they didn’t exist. Sure, my wife and kids love them, but me, nope. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/69 "2019-08-18T02:34:46Z")
I have to love my cats. Nobody save my granddaughter even likes them. They are special, overbred, high-toned beautiful animals. I am so enamoured of them i constantly find myself at odds with normal behavior. I convince myself they love me back. On good days they are a joy to interact with. But, bad days, omg bad days, what can i say? I will be their servant until I, or they buy the farm. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656/70 "2019-08-20T07:01:09Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > Do you prefer your cat in [small, medium, or large](https://drive.google.com/file/d/12PcKnXI6GBIttjTO-1zTQXrs1qAUV2Zw/view?usp=sharing)? Yes, I do. I prefer them in small, medium, or large. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats/838656.md?page=3)