# Do Cats Like Us, Or Just Tolerate Us?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cats-like-us-or-just-tolerate-us/967339>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 3, 2022, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cats-like-us-or-just-tolerate-us/967339 "2022-07-03T10:09:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cats-like-us-or-just-tolerate-us/967339/48 "2022-07-07T02:50:15Z")

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If cats didn’t like us, they wouldn’t choose to hang out near their owners [when said owners work from home](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/1530), right? Clearly they enjoy our company or they’d leave the room.

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