I have known two people who would without fail joke about killing cats every time the subject of cats came up. Never known anyone with a similarly fanatical hatred of dogs. I much prefer cats myself. Dogs are sensory overload nightmares.

I can understand people not liking dogs. I think they're cool but they are a lot. They have zero chill and are high key all the time. I had to warm up to dogs as I grew up cause when I was a little kid I found wm pretty scary. Cause they were the same size as me and have next to no grace or awareness of their surroundings indoors. Its like being inside with an excited horse at that age. I think disliking cats means that you're evil. There is no reason to have a problem with them, they fuck off when you visit, dogs need to swarm you. Cats mind their own damn business most of the time. You can be cat ambivalent but disliking em just doesnt make any sense to me.

Wait until you own a pet that isn't a cat or a dog and watch people contantly joke about eating your pet

Haha yes my pet chickens and shrimp do look delicious, let me make the same joke about eating your puppy and see how well it goes down

Or if you own a rat people will ask if its dirty and aggressive (not so much any more because the internet has shown people how nice they are, but when I was a kid my pet rat would get all kinds of comments about it being vermin)

Cat haters genuinely creep me out and have almost always consistently been unpleasant people in general. Its not a perfect litmus test because I know some downright evil cat lovers too.

I like dogs for short stints but find them exhausting. I don’t really get this whole wanting a creature to be obsessed with you thing I find it very suffocating and off putting. I had some dogs I knew as puppies and visited often but eventually their enthusiasm just became too much, still loved the little rodent creatures though but I couldn’t even hide from them for 5 seconds just all over me for a solid hour before they would chill out.

Conversely my cat will sit at the door when i come home and then the second i am done taking my shoes off n shit pretends im not there and walks away. She does love a good roll around in whatever i was wearing though. My favourite thing that cats do is spend 10 minutes circling my lap and settling down only to get up the second i become a minor inconvenience of moving 1 millimetre in any direction

I like dogs, I like cats, I like critters of all kinds. I am truly enlightened.

Some of you guys should listen to yourselves.

"People who don't like cats want to control others and can't accept boundaries"

Extrapolating a whole type of personality out of shit like this is absolutely unhinged. Accept that other people don't like what you like.

I also don't like cats. Fuck them. They're rude assholes who shit in my apartment. Putting me in the same corner as sex pests and sociopaths because of a perfectly fine preference like that is bottom of the barrel behaviour. What the fuck is wrong with you?

What's next? Does my skull shape indicate a potentially violent tendency? Does the color of my eyes tell you that I'm predisposed to lie?

What an absolute unhinged shit show of a thread.

I guess this became the dog hating thread

Its not that I hate cats. I just dont care much for them. They do very little for me.

Like many people dont care for pigs but I think pigs are cool. I do like dogs though.

If you prefer one over the other, fine. But if you hate one or the other, it's sus in my book. Fluffy babies are to be loved in all their forms!

Nope I believe it. People hate cats because they aren’t dogs. I’ve heard a cat hater actually wish death on cats.

It’s an extremely weird position to take for seemingly no legitimate reason.

dog owners are 100x more annoying than cat owners, esp indoor cats. Cats don't bark incessantly. And after seeing a pit bull latch onto a border collies face, im good on the violent breeds. cat haters lack the emotional maturity to deal with a cat, they need the automatic loyalty of a dog. nvm the fact i can't leave the house longer than 8 hours. my friend with the pit bull has to have his parents walk the dogs at lunch. also dog houses tend to smell because their stink gets everywhere. my friend ripped out his old carpet and when i walked in his house last week, i could tell the air was fresher. he's also just a filthy person though. having a dog is too close to having a child.

As a child, I had bad experiences with cats and dogs, I declared them nasty and gross for many many years. I would've been described a 'hater'.

As I grew up, I had good experiences with cats and dogs, I now like them.

Perhaps peoples' opinions on things are reflective of their life experiences and not some core revelation about a person's soul.

i like all the mammal pets and the aves. i had a friend that had a pet tarantula. we just looked at each other warily. i didn't want to get close.

i have another friend that has scorpions and snakes, and that's hard for me to wrap my head around. ive watched and held pet snakes plenty, but i don't get it. i look at their eyes and whatever is going on there is a total mystery to me. don't even get me started on scorpions. little alien fighting robots. ill just watch, thank you.

ill take dogs and cats all day. i find people who don't like mammals to have some kind of sad or limited history with a species. sure cats can play aloof head games and dogs can be pushy. birds can be noisy. whatever. i can be all those things too. it takes all kinds to make a world.

Comments in this thread are a bunch of cat-owners going "no my sweet baby is perfect anyone who doesn't like cats is THE DEVIL INCARNATE and HAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM IT'S ACTUALLY DOGS THAT SUCK, NO I DON'T HAVE TOXOPLASMOSIS"

I'm brave, I'll say it - cats drool, canines rule. Ever heard of an Australian Shepherd or a Border Collie giving you toxoplasmosis? I haven't either

They're relatively common, it's sort of like the people who are really proud about telling others that they aren't good at math, always comes across as performative.

I love dogs. I also like cats but I am allergic to them :(

Once had a random cat come inside my room and scare the shit out of me. But it was such a super cuddly one and my allergies wasn't acting up and being a dummy I decided to let it sleep next to me, only for me to wake up barely able to open my eyes and the runniest nose ever lmao

yeah I'm with you, i can't fuckin stand other people's dogs for the most part.