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Well folks, I found an IRL cat hater!

Genuinely took me off guard when she said that.

She also snarled in disgust when I showed her a picture of one of the sweet heart strays in my neighborhood.

.....Probably coming off as a fake post, but no, I'm being serious!

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[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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