Why don't people like cats?

I do not like cats because they make me swell up and sneeze violently! I am so allergic. They love me though. When I show a home they want to always come rub up on me. It is like they are trying to kill me- LOL- Just kidding. I like them- from a distance.

One has to take extra efforts and keep the house clean. Its not the Cats but with every Pet you keep.

Interesting timing on this post. Our beautiful black cat, Lazerkitty is struggling to stay with us and not let kidney disease win.  I think that people may not hate cats, they just don't understand them.  I can't say that I understand them either...but I do appreciate their independent streaks and their glorious beauty.

I've heard there are cat people and dog people but we have had both. They bring much joy to our lives.

I am completely ambivalent towards cats. They ignore me, I ignore them. They are rather like house-squirrels without the squirellyness. I'm crazy about dogs though.

I think "Why don't people like cats?" is an extremely broad, and wrong, question. Some people don't, that's true. Some are allergic, some just prefer dogs, snakes, birds, whatever. However, several years ago cats overtook dogs as the nation's favorite pet, so "man's best friend" is now a cat.

Until recently I never "liked" cats because they wouldn't come when called, wouldn't greet me at the door when I came home from a terrible day at work, wouldn't climb up on my lap and stay forever, wouldn't.......

Then, on Thanksgiving Day 2006, a feral black cat came by. It looked hungry, so I gave it some meat and milk. It inhaled it all and took off.

On Christmas Eve 2006, another feral black cat came by. I thought that it might be the same cat. My wise old grandmother always said that the way to a cat's love is through food. I fed it. It stayed.

I tried very hard to make it an indoor cat because I know the life span for outdoor cats is short, about four years. I was being successful, but at about 2:30 in the morning it would howl to go outside. And it was a horrible howl. I thought the neighbors would call animal control and report me for abusing a cat. So I always let it go outside whenever it wanted to go outside.

On September 20, it was hit and killed by a car. I was crushed. I rushed down to the local animal shelter and got a replacement cat. An indoor cat. Zoey the Cool Cat.

I'm currently a cat person, but I still love dogs, birds, snakes, fish, guinea pigs, hampsters, rats, mice....