Stranger_On_A_Train:
To your dog, you are the FOOD GOD.
To your cat, you are just FOOD.
In this context, you will find that nearly everything about canine and feline psychology makes almost perfect sense.
Stranger
To my cat, we are also the soft, warm furniture.
Helena330:
I don’t understand the animosity here towards cats by supposed cat owners. ?? I’ve had many cats and also volunteer at a shelter. In that time I’ve run across very few cats who actually like their tummies rubbed. *So I don’t do it. * If you’re getting your hand attacked, your cat doesn’t like it and has humored you for as long as they can stand. So don’t do it.
Like one poster upthread, I’ve never gotten myself mangled or chewed up, not even by scared shelter kitties. Maybe because I appreciate and respect cats for being cats, are and don’t think of them as evil or monsters.
And Cat Whisperer, I’m really surprised at this:
She has her reasons for what she does, and they’re not to piss you off. She’s a cat and does what accomplishes what she wants. That it doesn’t please you has nothing to do with it. With your ID, I thought you’d understand this. She’s not an asshole, she’s a cat. Doing cat things.
You understand we’re being facetious, right? I know she’s not doing things on purpose to piss me off; I get that she has her own agenda and her own needs and desires. The end result, though, is that sometimes she acts like an asshole by my human standards.
