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Irish people and cats

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  • #32
    Maireadio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭Maireadio


    Lucyfur wrote: »
    I love them enough to make up for everyone who doesn't :)

    Me too. :) It's like I always say, the people who love cats really love them to make up for the fact that everyone else hates them.


  • #33
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    People who hate cats but adore dogs are often control freaks who like to be able to click thier fingers and have their dogs do precisely as they're ordered in lieu of a good thrashing.


  • #34
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    I'm with you, OP - I've always known people who liked or didn't like cats, nothing unusual.
    But the freaky, deep hatred of cats that some (SOME!!!) Irish people seem to harbour is something rather unique in my experience. It's just strange, and nobody has yet been able to explain it to me.


  • #35
    bisounours
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭bisounours


    I love my little runty beast and would say he puts up with just as much with me as I do with him. He's 16, and been forced to move 6 countries with me during his life and has been very good at settling in easily in each. At the vet's a few weeks ago to renew his rabies vaccination and she commented this would probably be his last given his age. Did I give her the stink eye for that!!


  • #36
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    We had cats at home as kids. The mammy cat had a bunch of kittens and of course we wanted to play with them. To put me off going near them, my mother held one up to show me and told me it was a baby rat. For a long time after, I was terrified of newborn kittens and don't think I ever got over the comparison.

    Then she had this big huge massive black cat. He was the light of her life. She used to feed him fresh meat and heat it in the microwave for him. Spoilt rotten but he was really mean. He'd wandered off now and again and got kind of wild but would come home to be fed. He came home after a particularly long stint away and I picked him up I was so happy to see him. I was holding him up when he stuck out both his front claws and attacked my face. I let him go but he was holding on to my face.


    And there's my story why I don't like cats. Now, I'd always feed a stray one, or look after an injured one but I wouldn't like one as a pet and I don't like other people's cats climbing on top of me


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  • #37
    Estrellita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Estrellita


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    People who hate cats but adore dogs are often control freaks who like to be able to click thier fingers and have their dogs do precisely as they're ordered in lieu of a good thrashing.

    Dogs are great companions. I don't have a cat, yet I've to put up with my neighbours cats shyting where I grow my food. If I knew exactly which cat belonged to who I would post the shyte in through their letter box.


  • #38
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,321 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    Estrellita wrote: »
    Dogs are great companions. I don't have a cat, yet I've to put up with my neighbours cats shyting where I grow my food. If I knew exactly which cat belonged to who I would post the shyte in through their letter box.

    I've had a cat two years and never seen her go to the toilet once in that time. Often wondered where she goes. You've got to laugh.


  • #39
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    I've had a few cats and my current one acts like a dog. He comes when call and follows me everywhere. He doesn't scratch or bite me and doesn't mind being picked up. Here's a picture of him.
    http://imgur.com/ULBWiGY


  • #40
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,491 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I love cats. They're intelligent, cuddly and their purring is wonderfully therapeutic.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #41
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Whatever about not liking them it's the people who go out of their way to torture, abuse or kill cats who really upset me.

    What type of diseased mind gets off on doing something like that?


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  • #42
    Hotei
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    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    I've had a cat two years and never seen her go to the toilet once in that time. Often wondered where she goes. You've got to laugh.

    It's no laughing matter when you have cat sh*te under your fingernails.


  • #43
    Estrellita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Estrellita


    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    I've had a cat two years and never seen her go to the toilet once in that time. Often wondered where she goes. You've got to laugh.

    There's actually this crazy guy near me that hates cats. While I vent my distaste for them, this guy means business. I remember my next door neighbour telling me she received a threat about her cats shyting in his garden. Well she appears to be one cat down already.

    True, I guess you got to just laugh these things off.


  • #44
    petrolcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Whatever about not liking them it's the people who go out of their way to torture, abuse or kill cats who really upset me.

    What type of diseased mind gets off on doing something like that?

    Surprised that took so long.


  • #45
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Shenshen wrote: »
    I'm with you, OP - I've always known people who liked or didn't like cats, nothing unusual.
    But the freaky, deep hatred of cats that some (SOME!!!) Irish people seem to harbour is something rather unique in my experience. It's just strange, and nobody has yet been able to explain it to me.

    And how many people abroad have you discussed their opinions on Cats with??

    Few, if any. I'd imagine.


  • #46
    petrolcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    Hotei wrote: »
    It's no laughing matter when you have cat sh*te under your fingernails.

    If cat poo really is an issue in your garden would you not wear gloves seeing as you know the consequences?


  • #47
    mohawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭mohawk


    Cats are evil. They are biding their time before they reveal their plan for world domination.


  • #48
    Shenshen
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    Jedidiah Rapping Housetop wrote: »
    And how many people abroad have you discussed their opinions on Cats with??

    Few, if any. I'd imagine.

    I can't honestly give you a number - over the 30 years of growing up and living in Germany, Austria and a short stint in Canada, probably well over a hundred or so.


  • #49
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    mohawk wrote: »
    Cats are evil. They are biding their time before they reveal their plan for world domination.

    They're waiting for for evolution to equip them with opposable thumbs.
    That's when it'll kick off.


  • #50
    Shint0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭Shint0


    My cat is so psychically in tune with me it's eerie but awesome.


  • #51
    thegreatgonzo
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    Hotei wrote: »
    It's no laughing matter when you have cat sh*te under your fingernails.

    Normal day at work for me


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  • #52
    Maireadio
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    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    I love cats. They're intelligent, cuddly and their purring is wonderfully therapeutic.

    This is often overlooked; cats are incredibly relaxing presences to have around. Even their content sleeping face destresses me.


  • #53
    Hotei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    petrolcan wrote: »
    If cat poo really is an issue in your garden would you not wear gloves seeing as you know the consequences?

    That doesn't resolve the real issue though, does it?
    Anyway, a good gardener would never wear gloves.


  • #54
    Sweetemotion
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    People who hate cats but adore dogs are often control freaks who like to be able to click thier fingers and have their dogs do precisely as they're ordered in lieu of a good thrashing.


    Not true.

    There is loyalty and friendship formed.

    Most people I know would rather go hungry than, let their dog, go hungry.

    Same people wouldn't visit a doctor in years but spend everything they have on a vets visit.


  • #55
    Maireadio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭Maireadio


    petrolcan wrote: »
    Surprised that took so long.

    What took so long? Do you not believe this happens?


  • #56
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Cats are vermin.


  • #57
    Donald Trump
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    bisounours wrote: »
    I love my little runty beast and would say he puts up with just as much with me as I do with him. He's 16, and been forced to move 6 countries with me during his life and has been very good at settling in easily in each. At the vet's a few weeks ago to renew his rabies vaccination and she commented this would probably be his last given his age. Did I give her the stink eye for that!!

    Why do you always have to bring down the tone of a perfectly decent conversation by starting to talk about your mickey?


  • #58
    petrolcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    Maireadio wrote: »
    What took so long? Do you not believe this happens?

    That it took some 40 posts before it was mentioned.

    But I can see that you're new here. :)


  • #59
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Maireadio wrote: »
    This is often overlooked; cats are incredibly relaxing presences to have around. Even their content sleeping face destresses me.

    I remember watching a US prison documentary where the Warden decided to start a cat adoption programme for violent offenders doing lengthy sentences. It had an amazing impact in curbing the aggression on the wing, they were all too busy looking after their cats.


  • #60
    Estrellita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Estrellita


    Hotei wrote: »
    That doesn't resolve the real issue though, does it?
    Anyway, a good gardener would never wear gloves.

    You took his bait there, but I agree. I normally wear gloves only if I'm dealing with something stingy, prickly, or when I'm burying a cat.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
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    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Cats are vermin.

    As are their owners, generally. Anyone who lets their animal defecate on someone else's property is vermin. At least some dog owners clean after their animals, no cat owners do, and dogs never climb the fence to defecate in my gardens.


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