I'd like to preface this post by saying that I'm an animal person. I like animals. Unfortunately due to various reasons, I never had a mammal pet growing up (we had fish/birds). My last girlfriend, whom I dated for several years, had a dog, (we've also petsat a bunch with other dogs) and I've gotten pretty familiar with them. Dogs are great.
I haven't had much interaction with cats until recently. So far though, based on my admittedly limited experience with cats, I don't seem to get what people see in them.
I've been seeing this girl for the last few months. She has two cats. One is a long haired fat orange male cat, and the other a smaller gray female. They're actually very friendly (by cat standards), or so I'm told. I spend a lot of time at her place but the more time I spend around them, the more I dislike them.
Reason 1 - their fucking hair gets everywhere. FUCKING EVERYWHERE. It's in the air, it's all over all clothes, on furniture, on electronics, on human body parts (especially when humans are naked doing stuff), just everywhere. I never had any issues with my ex's dog (granted he was the non-shedding kind), but fuck cat hair.
Reason 2 - they don't fucking listen to anything you say. No matter how many times you yell at them or tell them not to do something or not to go somewhere, it won't make a difference. They might stop for a minute, but turn around and there they go again. With dogs, you can actually see them be sad and remorseful if you chastise them. Cats don't give a fuck.
Reason 3 - they're disloyal as fuck. So the fat orange cat managed to run away a couple months back. We put up flyers but for a couple weeks we didn't know where it went. I hate to admit this, but it was actually quite nice, the cat hair problem was significantly reduced. Eventually someone called and said that this orange cat was hanging around her yard for the past several days. My girlfriend went over there and basically barely managed to wrangle this cat and bring it home, because it would no longer recognize her. For several days after she brought it back the cat treated her as a stranger. So you raise it, feed it, take care of it for years, and this is what you get in return? Uh, yeah, fuck that.
Reason 4 - they scratch the shit out of you. Yes, even with trimmed nails, I've gotten scratched pretty good numerous times, and these are very friendly cats. I can only imagine the battle scars if these were the friskier type of feline.
Reason 5 - they will ruin your shit. Obviously shoes and things like this are a given, but yesterday I left my laptop open when we went to bed. When I woke up, the laptop was in an unnaturally flat position, the hinge that was loose and the screen now doesn't work. My rather expensive Sony laptop fucking ruined.
Reason 6 - they're annoying as fuck. Especially at night. I'm trying to sleep, they're constantly jumping up and down the bed, chasing each other, making all sorts of noise, scaring the shit out of me, waking me up. My girlfriend somehow sleeps through all of this. I can't get a good night's rest there. Not to mention all the litterbox accidents, and pawprints, and ruined furniture, meowing for no reason, etc etc.
So GAF, what do people see in cats again? I actually considered getting one before, since I I was thinking wouldn't have to walk it or anything but this was before I actually knew what I would be getting myself into... I mean, I guess they're cute and all, but holy shit, do I not want a cat ever.
