Welcome to the straight dope message board! We are an old-fashioned message board, with some old-fashioned posting habits. You’ll get more and more-enthusiast engagement if you follow them.
We expect posters to be genuine. Cutesy posts about troublesome roommates that turn out to be cats is not genuine; it’s deliberately misleading. You presumably meant to be fun and provoke curiousity, but you may have also annoyed some posters.Your same post but recast as as “My cats are driving me nutz!” would have been totally genuine and most welcome. And probably gotten you a hearty round of approval from the hundreds of cat-owners who are active here.
for example:
Regarding this thread: One of the things that’s nice about old-fashioped message boards is that you can follow a developing conversation all in one place. It’s not like Reddit, where yesterdays story disappears, and you need to create a new story to continue a converation. So your follow-up post (this thread) where you admit your other thread is talking about your cats is totally wonderful content. But it belongs as a post in your original thread. It is not a suitable fresh thread on its own.
Of course, if you read a bit, you’ll notice that we’re not all that serious here. Lots of silly conversations about silly things. But we are serious about saying what you mean, meaning what you say, and we put a high value on being nice to other posters. (Our fundamental rule is “don’t be a jerk”. 
) We also like citations in the more serious threads. (Heck, sometimes even in the silly ones.)
I’m going to merge this with your other thread, since that’s our style. Check out thread games for some pure silliness, or Cafe Society to chat about movies, food, and books. You should probably read Great Debates for a while before plunging in, because that’s one of the forums people care most about the style of. On the other extreme, most things are fair game in the BBQ pit.
I hope you enjoy the site.