Thank you for answering me, hun. We are all entitled to our opinions, our likes and dislikes. It would be a very boring world if everyone had the same tastes and preferences. This post is going to run longer than it should, because I have run into cat prejudice and I find it upsetting, resulting in perfectly nice animals suffering unreasonable cruelty from fear and misunderstanding.
Cats are not dogs. They are solitary hunters who also are prey sized. They evolved entirely different interspecies communication methods from dogs. They also lack the facial muscles dogs do (they do not require them since they are generally not pack animals). Cats communicate through body language, eye contact, ear set, tail movement, and minimal vocalizations, which many humans find difficult to interpret.
As for the biting incident, I've never heard of a cat acting that way, ever (dogs, ferrets, rats, hamsters, mice, birds, yes. I know of one woman who was once bitten by a ferret for nearly 30 minutes, she ended up filling a sink with water and submerging her hand and the ferret into the sink). A normally socialized cat would virtually never bite because a cat's first and primary line of defense is their claws (they will mouth in play but bite, never, I've NEVER been bitten by a cat in my entire life). Dogs bite, cats claw. That being said, I've been around cats long enough (and I'm sort of an amateur behavioralist) to realize that plenty of people raise their cats wrong, creating seriously fucked up and neurotic animals. Secondly, if the cat was declawed all bets are off. There is nothing that fucks with a cats head more than being declawed, it can make them crazy and dangerously unpredictable because they have no way to defend themselves. But bear in mind, if all of your fingers and toes were amputated, you would probably be more than a little fucking weird, too.
I have housecats, seven of them. They are not useless, they bring me laughter and comfort and are all quite affectionate, literally fighting each other for the privelege of being on my or my husband's lap or on the bed with us. But our cats are "normal," (read, sane) generally mentally stable and properly socialized, they live in a household where they are treated like cats and not expected to act like children or dogs. They are also very good at killing the odd mouse that makes the mistake of wandering into our house every so often. So my cats serve several purposes, the first and primary being my entertainment, which I consider quite valuable.
Besides, saying you categorically hate anything that serves "no purpose" is ridiculous and probably hypocritical in our culture (unless you live the life of an ascetic). The same could, technically, be said about your tatoos, hun
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(no, seriously, my cat Misty is sitting on my lap).
