# What would you do if you found out your cat had opposing political views? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107 "2017-07-25T20:45:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/21 "2017-07-26T00:29:49Z")
She would get store-brand treats instead of Temptations or Pounces. I would like to think she would still snuggle around my neck. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/22 "2017-07-26T01:07:54Z")
I went with you being an idiot although to be honest I could live with it. Cats are known for being contrary with the people they own so it just wouldn’t bother me much. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/23 "2017-07-26T01:17:20Z")
I’d chase him around the house with a vacuum cleaner until he renounced his beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/24 "2017-07-26T01:42:47Z")
They are all three under voting age, so their views are irrelevant. I doubt any of them would vote for Trump anyway. None of them like being grabbed. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/25 "2017-07-26T01:46:55Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I doubt any of them would vote for Trump anyway. None of them like being grabbed. This. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/26 "2017-07-26T02:02:42Z")
This could be how Son of Sam got started. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/27 "2017-07-26T02:58:55Z")
[ol] [li]Be completely unsurprised [/li][li]Make myself as useful as possible in an attempt to survive the inevitable purges.[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/28 "2017-07-26T03:00:49Z")
I try to be friends with people who have other beliefs so I don’t know why that wouldn’t apply to cats. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/29 "2017-07-26T03:10:01Z")
I always thought that cats are just reincarnated versions of really lazy Nazis. When I have asked them about their political beliefs, they have always been abhorrent but then they just get distracted and go back to licking themselves so I never considered them an existential threat. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/30 "2017-07-26T03:28:17Z")
Your cat is [Bucky Katt](http://getfuzzy.wikia.com/wiki/Bucky_B._Katt)? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/31 "2017-07-26T06:43:01Z")
Surely, cats are above such things. Being concerned as they are with the ineffable and unknowable, petty squabbles among the staff are of no interest to them. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/32 "2017-07-26T06:52:02Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > All cats are Hitler on the inside. We love them because they are adorable in their evil machinations. You just want to head them off before they open up their own Mouschwitz. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/33 "2017-07-26T07:17:56Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > This could be how Son of Sam got started. I wish I had said that, Dog-gone it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/34 "2017-07-26T07:44:13Z")
I’m not saying how I voted because doing so outside the pit could be interpreted as an infringement of the rules. Wait, I think I just made it clear how I voted. Of _course_ any cat I owned would have opposing political views. Cats are evil. That’s why I like them. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/35 "2017-07-26T10:18:18Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > All cats are Hitler on the inside. We love them because they are adorable in their evil machinations. Some cats are [Hitler on the outside](http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl), too. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/36 "2017-07-26T11:14:02Z")
My cat is adorable and looks decorative no matter what he’s doing. He looks like something Disney would’ve drawn. And he’s dumb as a stump. He sleeps \*\*\*on \*\*\*my feet, FFS, which can’t be comfortable. > [@monstro](#): > > I’d chase him around the house with a vacuum cleaner until he renounced his beliefs. My cat doesn’t run from the vacuum cleaner, he hisses at it, then glares. Same with the broom. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/37 "2017-07-26T11:19:16Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > Your Cat already has a political view completely opposite of yours, and every other human you know. > Were your cat 600 pounds, you would clearly know your Cat’s point of view and would come to realise there are only 3 words for you in it’s language. > > Slave > Toy > and Food, which Toy may become at any time. > > All other trivial aspects of it’s political views would of course, be meaningless. > At least to humans… Heck, if your cat was merely as large as a German Shepherd it would change the nature of your relationship with it quite drastically. It wouldn’t want to kill you, since it does depend on you, but its demands would be unignorable and noncompliance quite painful. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/38 "2017-07-26T14:08:38Z")
Silly Nylock, you left off the obvious answer. If such a thing ever happened in my house, I would simply stop giving the cat a lift to the polling place. He is far too lazy to make it there himself. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/39 "2017-07-26T14:19:19Z")
My cat does have opposing political views. She’s a Monarchist of course and I support democracy though I am beginning to rethink this a little of late. Most cats are Monarchist and they consider themselves the Monarchs. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107/40 "2017-07-26T19:23:42Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I went with you being an idiot although to be honest I could live with it. Cats are known for being contrary with the people they own so it just wouldn’t bother me much. Ah! no fear my friend - the poll allows you to choose multiple options. I figured that in today’s cultural climate why add even more stress and strain to political observers of the straight dope? So, if you think your cat is stupid, you can choose that, if you think I’m an idiot you can choose that also. If you think I’m stupider than your cat though, that level of nuance can only be expressed in the comment section - but it may actually be against the rules as **Princhester** pointed out; I’m actually not sure. I certainly wouldn’t complain about someone saying I’m an idiot in a thread where I posted that as one of the poll options. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-found-out-your-cat-had-opposing-political-views/792107.md?page=3)