Men with cats

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  • AnnaPixie
    AnnaPixie Posts: 7,439 Member
    I'm allergic to cats, so it's a deal breaker for me.

    However, I do have a creepy (yet funny) "man with cats" story:
    We met online and decided to meet face to face after a few emails/chats. We decided on going rock climbing (I know, I know, probably not the most intelligent thing to have someone you don't know be responsible for your life on a first date). So I meet up with him at his house (I stay outside) and as he's coming to join me, he says "give me a minute, I have to say goodbye". I'm now asking myself if he lied and he's married, if he has kids he never mentioned.... but no. The guy left the front door open, so I could hear him take a cat in his arms, hug it and say "goodbye ***cat's name*** ". Ok, he has a cat. But then I see him with another cat in his arms, doing exactly the same ritual, and then another....
    Total counted: 5 cats! AND he said goodbye to each of them one by one... deal breaker!

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: that made me giggle out loud! Thanks for the story :bigsmile:
  • scapez
    scapez Posts: 2,018 Member
    I have two cats and love animals in general. I will also rescue any animal in need that I can (though this doesn't translate into keeping all said rescues animals).

    I've also dressed mine up, but only in Santa suits at Christmas, and only for the laugh factor. They look so ridiculous and hate it so much - my family and I get such a kick out of it. We literally laugh until we cry! Besides...I don't have kids to torture so someone's gotta suffer! :laugh:

    it would be virtually impossible to have a relationship with a guy that didn't 'get' that side of me.

    That said, I certainly wouldn't mind if someone I met had cats and loved them, but I think I would be a bit creeped out if he dressed them up...maybe a double standard, but I just don't equate that as being very manly.
  • Roadie2000
    Roadie2000 Posts: 1,801 Member
    It's possible that he got the cat from a former relationship. Maybe she moved out and didn't want or couldn't take the cat. It's also possible that she was responsible for dressing up the cat, and then taking the pictures. My ex did this with my dog all the time, you can see one in my profile.
  • mznisaelaine
    mznisaelaine Posts: 2,262 Member
    I'm allergic to cats, so it's a deal breaker for me.

    However, I do have a creepy (yet funny) "man with cats" story:
    We met online and decided to meet face to face after a few emails/chats. We decided on going rock climbing (I know, I know, probably not the most intelligent thing to have someone you don't know be responsible for your life on a first date). So I meet up with him at his house (I stay outside) and as he's coming to join me, he says "give me a minute, I have to say goodbye". I'm now asking myself if he lied and he's married, if he has kids he never mentioned.... but no. The guy left the front door open, so I could hear him take a cat in his arms, hug it and say "goodbye ***cat's name*** ". Ok, he has a cat. But then I see him with another cat in his arms, doing exactly the same ritual, and then another....
    Total counted: 5 cats! AND he said goodbye to each of them one by one... deal breaker!

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: that made me giggle out loud! Thanks for the story :bigsmile:

    LOL this made me laugh too :laugh: :laugh:

    There is nothing wrong with having any kind of pet, but it gets weird when you have an "odd" relationship with your pet.
  • TheKitsune6
    TheKitsune6 Posts: 5,798 Member
    I'm a single lady with two cats - and I've dressed them up (but mostly because I think it's hilarious how much they hate it). I'm also looking into getting a dog soon. Fact is, I'm an animal person. Hell, my career is animal centric, it's my life. I would be so impressed with a guy having any kind of animal, and happy that he had the sense of humor to dress it up in stupid outfits to post on facebook. That's a confident man right there.

    Of course, like most, I do have to draw the line at someone with a chihuahua that needs to wear a sailor suit to every outing.

    Then again this is all dependent on the individual, I don't think there' really any "right" way. Certainly society has a tendency to look down on the abnormal: "a man with a CAT? OMG!" so instead of him being able to admit that he just loves this creature, he has to explain that his ex girlfriend left it behind, or suffer the snobby judgments of people that just don't get it... meh.

    I said it in the first paragraph, be stoked that there's a guy who isn't afraid to be himself, everyone else be damned. He could be a good fit :)
  • pa_jorg
    pa_jorg Posts: 4,404 Member
    I'm allergic to cats, so it's a deal breaker for me.

    However, I do have a creepy (yet funny) "man with cats" story:
    We met online and decided to meet face to face after a few emails/chats. We decided on going rock climbing (I know, I know, probably not the most intelligent thing to have someone you don't know be responsible for your life on a first date). So I meet up with him at his house (I stay outside) and as he's coming to join me, he says "give me a minute, I have to say goodbye". I'm now asking myself if he lied and he's married, if he has kids he never mentioned.... but no. The guy left the front door open, so I could hear him take a cat in his arms, hug it and say "goodbye ***cat's name*** ". Ok, he has a cat. But then I see him with another cat in his arms, doing exactly the same ritual, and then another....
    Total counted: 5 cats! AND he said goodbye to each of them one by one... deal breaker!

    Thank you for the laugh!
  • bruintamer
    bruintamer Posts: 183 Member
    I'm allergic to cats, so it's a deal breaker for me.

    However, I do have a creepy (yet funny) "man with cats" story:
    We met online and decided to meet face to face after a few emails/chats. We decided on going rock climbing (I know, I know, probably not the most intelligent thing to have someone you don't know be responsible for your life on a first date). So I meet up with him at his house (I stay outside) and as he's coming to join me, he says "give me a minute, I have to say goodbye". I'm now asking myself if he lied and he's married, if he has kids he never mentioned.... but no. The guy left the front door open, so I could hear him take a cat in his arms, hug it and say "goodbye ***cat's name*** ". Ok, he has a cat. But then I see him with another cat in his arms, doing exactly the same ritual, and then another....
    Total counted: 5 cats! AND he said goodbye to each of them one by one... deal breaker!

    Bahahahhahahah! At least the cats weren't all dressed up?
  • threnners
    threnners Posts: 175 Member
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    Just sayin'.
  • jaxandmaksmom
    jaxandmaksmom Posts: 262 Member
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    Just sayin'.

    i honestly cant stop laughing at this...
  • MissingMinnesota
    MissingMinnesota Posts: 7,486 Member
    OMG I just rememebed this.
    I am a mortgage underwriter and we had a borrower that sent in picture of his cats as "assets". One of them had a small tin foil hat on to hide from the aliens. If I remember correctly there were 3 cats and all of them were dressed up in the pictures. My co-workers and I could not stop laughing. I told my co-worker that she should respond that the cats were now liabilties and would need to be included in the borrower debt to income ratio and counted as dependants. She of course did not but it would have been funny.
  • Emv79
    Emv79 Posts: 245 Member
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    Just sayin'.

    i honestly cant stop laughing at this...

    Me too. But at the same time, I feel a bit bad for him...and then I look at the picture again and giggle some more.
  • jeepzilla
    jeepzilla Posts: 201
    i have a dog and a cat, the cat is anti social and a pig but still cool when he's hungry..
  • The_Iron
    The_Iron Posts: 288
    For the women who love their men to only have dogs.

    And ponies.... lot's of My Little Ponies! :noway:

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  • SnakeDarling
    SnakeDarling Posts: 352 Member
    I care, but only because I'm allergic.

    Owning a cat is no big deal other than that.
  • bruintamer
    bruintamer Posts: 183 Member
    For the women who love their men to only have dogs.

    And ponies.... lot's of My Little Ponies! :noway:

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    *Facepalm*
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