"George Patterson" wrote:

Perhaps to you. I've had several cats that loved me.

Have you noticed that all cat haters you've met are people who were not
raised with cats as pets? I think this is because these folks simply do
not speak Cat, a language one must learn young, apparently. Thus they
misinterpret cat signals as hostility, aloofness, sneakiness, etc. I've
met only one person who came to like cats as an adult, and never met a
cat hater who was raised with them.

A cat is a project. It requires proper rearing to become a good pet.
Some people have the knack for it (it seems your family does), some
don't. The best pets usually happen when the animals are acquired very
young and handled with gentle discipline and love.

Exactly the same thing is true of dogs, of course, but one can get away
with ignoring the proper rearing of a cat with less dire consequences
than one suffers from a delinquent dog. Cats are lower maintenance than
dogs and thus tend to get ignored more often, resulting in the aloof,
shy animals that contribute to cats' reputation among non-cat people.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM