Of dogs are more loving, why does my cat follow me into the bathroom, drape herself over my neck and purrs loudly, great me at the door with meows and purrs? Just because she's not always sitting at my feet?
Well that explains the lack of picket lines! If the number of cats is a crazy index, Christopher Walken is a crazy man. I'm wondering if you can get a Britney Spears Bald Head Edition. I shudder to imagine how many cats would come with it!Some other (crazy) cat lady/man action figures
These are little free spirits who decide we are OK and decide to bond with us. I feel special for that. There is such a special feeling having your soul touched by them.
LOL! Yes, a parasite, not virus (well...a virus is a parasite but a parasite is not always a virus.) There are a lot less parasites overall and they are much more likely to be a problem for a host. But the rest of what I wrote pretty much holds true. I am getting old and forgetful I guess... or maybe its all these cats I have around driving me crazy!Yes. Except that toxoplasma is a parasite not a virus .
I love the Archie McPhee Cat Lady figurine! I need to buy it someday. I don't think the cat is green; I think the coloring/lighting is a little wonky.
You can blame the stereotype on solitary women, whether they were widows or "spinsters", who took in cats for companionship. Because cats can seem aloof and had a long history of being associated with evil within many Christian societies, the bad connotations that came with being a woman on her own, especially a "spinster," were seen as parallel to those associated with cats. It morphed a bit into what we know today as the "crazy cat lady" during the Victorian Era when it became the norm for unmarried women of a certain age to have a cat. I had to look it up, but I remembered something about cats and women during the Victorian Era.
"Old maids and cats have long been proverbially associated together, and rightly or wrongly these creatures have been looked upon with a certain degree of suspicion and aversion by a large proportion of the human race.’
Dundee Courier, 5 October 1880.
It can be assumed that the "suspicion and aversion" grew with the more cats a woman had, and, considering spaying and neutering did not start until the 1930s, if you have a couple of cats that are of opposite sexes or the cats can get outside, a woman with a cat was likely to end up with more. A woman who was willing to care for several cats but not have a husband or children were just plain crazy to the wider public.
Dogs, traditionally, were associated with men and as being helpers to men (guards, hunting dogs, what have you), so they could not possibly be seen in the same light.
What a great compliment that would be!Those same people who will tease, are also the ones who say that any cat that is cared for by me, is a cat who won the lottery, so how can I be upset about being a crazy cat lady when it means that I'm a loving, caring and awesome cat mom?
My husband is just as "crazy" as I am. And he's proud of it also. My husband is much more of an extrovert, very social and has more friends and acquaintances than any person needs, although he does like his alone time too. He doesn't "look" like the tough guy but is a "man's man" yet he is openly loving and caring about our cats and get's nothing but compliments and support from everyone. I think it's much more common and "accepted" to be a cat lover than it used to be...at least where I'm from.My brother is a crazy cat guy too... and he's a shaven head, tattooed, muscular manly-man type.