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And to reiterate people correcting uninformed opinions about cats...

No, good cats don't "Act like dogs". They act like cats. Cats have a huge variety of personalities, like people. But I have had cat after cat after cat that are super loyal and play fetch and crap. Dogs don't own that.

It's been scientifically proven in MANY different ways that cats love their owners. Like it's a fact. Period.

You also can't judge pet cats by the behavior of feral cats. Cats who are kept and loved by humans are in a state of extended kittenhood. Again, a scientific fact. So they are pretty much manbabies who get to be kids forever. (And cats who are RAISED by humans are a whole different animal. Most ridiculous things that exist.)

You also can't judge the personality of cats at all if you don't spend a lot of time around them, both individually and in general. Most cats are essentially introverts. Just like introverts, most cats aren't going to run up and give strangers great big hugs. (Although some will, silly things.) And yes, cat body language is SO MUCH MORE complicated than dog body language. Especially since the same thing from one cat could mean the opposite from another cat. Like the classic "cats wag their tails when they're mad"... But some wag their tails when they're happy.

With a lot of dogs you can be their best friend in about five seconds, cats just take longer. It's a lot like developing a relationship with another human. But of course they're not human and sometimes you're just left confused.

Sure I get scratched a lot, but oh well. As someone said, I could prevent it, but I don't. But literally no one has ever been mauled to death by a domesticated cat.

It's also been proven time and again that, even with constantly available food, cats miss their owners when they're gone. And that they can prefer their owners to food a lot of the time.

Basically people who assume cats are loveless assholes have opinions just as uninformed as those of racists. :P

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