Were you always a cat person

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Okay I was always a cat person but I never knew how much of a cat person I was until I hit my 20s and now I can't see myself ever being without a cat. I love my dogs but I am a cat person hands down. And this has brung me to ask if you have always been a cat person or just rescently and if so what cat brung you into the cat age so to speak.
 

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I have to admit I have always LOVED cats but have never been a huge cat person until Miagi and Tiger came along.
they are the very first cats I have ever had and I am madly in love with them.


ETA : I have always been a dog person since I have always had dogs all my life..but now I am both a cat and dog person.
 

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I use to think I was a dog person...but Trout is my first very own kit...so now I am definately a cat person..dogs are drooly
 

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I never liked cats growing up.Kind of parents handed down their dislike thing.
But, when we found Patches, that ALL changed.Now, with our 5.........I'm happier than I've been in a LONG time!!!!
 

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Cat person? Me? Not at all!

I do like all animals but wasn't particularly into cats over any other creature. If I went to visit someone with a cat though, I always ended up with it in my lap, even if it was supposedly unfriendly.

They wormed their way into my heart eventually.

Radar is my first ever cat. We got him because of the mouse infestation in our flat (which he has battled against valiently
) and I now find myself coo-ing over him at every opportunity, worrying about him when I'm not home, and loving him unconditionally....
 

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I've always been an animal person! I've always loved cats, dogs and other animals
 

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I grew up with cats, my whole family LOVES cats, Ever since I was very little, I've also collected glass/porcilin, cats, my nanny use to buy me them all the time.I LOVE cats.
 

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The first cat I can remember was a big old Siamese Tom we had called King - he used to allow me to crawl over him, cuddle him, hug him...I've had a cat all my life. Now, more so, since I have the breed of my dreams!
 

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I can't ever remember a time that we didn't have a cat. My parents weren't cat lovers but didn't hate them either. My grandma, who always lived with us, loved cats, so I guess that's why we always had them.
 

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I had always had dogs until about three years ago. I grew up on a farm and always had a dog. While the kids were growing up we had a fenced in backyard and a dog. I got divorced, the kids grew up and left home, and I now live in an apartment so I got two cats. It wasn't long before I turned into a cat person.
 

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Cat person since birth. Literally. Our Manx kitty, Cricket, gave birth to a litter the same day I was born. The morning after my parents brought me home from the hospital, Cricket and her entire litter were in my crib w/me!!!

We always had at least two cats growing up, and when I married, I was sooooo sad that I couldn't have cats (He is violently allergic). I didn't realize how much I missed them during those years until I fostered for a friend while my husband was deployed -- having a cat in the house with me just felt right, and I vowed after my divorce to have a cat as soon as I could find an apt that allowed them. That's how I found Bella.

Now I live w/five cats and a dog, and while I love Cinnamon because he's family and my mom loved him, I probably won't have a dog again. He's sweet and all, but at 90 lbs he's hardly cuddly, and he's not nearly as good about personal hygiene!
 

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Yes, absolutely! I think it has something to do with me having been born in the year of the Tiger.

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When I was a child I was always bringing home stray cats and sometimes stray dogs, much to my Mom's dismay because she had asthma and was extremely allergic to animals. The only pet I could have when I was a kid was fish, and when I got a bit older around 12 years, she let me have a bird so long as it stayed in my room. But my Mom found that she wasn't allergic to birds, so Tinko ended up with the run of the house and after that my bird became my Mom's bird!!!!!
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I promised myself that once I was old enough to live on my own I would always have a pet, and I have. I can't imagine my home without a kitty in it! It just wouldn't be the same, and how lonely it would be without my babies.
 

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I have always loved cats but Simon was the first to love me ... Kandie took 15 yrs ..lol...
 

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Yes, one of my first childhood memories was of my Grandmother's cat Isabelle. She looked a lot like Scratch Fury Destroyer of Worlds. I can remember having this big desire to pull her tail (I was three), and she decided to let me know that was NOT on her agenda. She clawed me, but I learned to respect her space. It was my first lesson that cats needed their own time. A few hours later she rubbed up against my legs, and we were friends until she crossed the bridge a few years later.
 

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I'm an animal person from the year dot. All critters have always been my friends. But it was dogs who were in my life as I was growing up, and when it came time to acquire a pet of my own, I would have had a dog if I had had the lifestyle for it.

I'll stay off my soapbox, because I'd be preaching to the choir anyway, but the upshot was that, since I wanted a pet who would give a hoot whether I was there or not -- and with whom I could have a real relationship -- but who could also handle my lifestyle -- cat it was. And Shasta taught me about cats.

And now -- sorry, doggies -- kitties win. Mind, once we're both retired and able to provide an appropriate lifestyle for a dog, I'd still like to have one, but if it doesn't happen, I'm perfectly happy to get my dog fix from other people's dogs. I won't ever, if I can help it, be without at least one cat, though.
 

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Yup, always been a cat person. Everyone in my family are cat people, and we've always had cats. When I moved in with my now DH, we lasted a year and a half I guess before we adopted a kitty (which he didn't want, but then fell in love with Byron and also became a cat person).

Then Byron died, and another kitty came into our lives who had to be rehomed when we moved over here to the US. We weren't going to have cats over here for a wide vareity of reasons, but I've realised that my life is very empty without cats. They just bring me so much joy and comfort (even if they do occasionally drive me mad....
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So yes. Always have been, always will be.

Dogs are smelly and drooly
 

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No, in fact, I used to be afraid of cats, and was even a little scared of Leo when I got him! He was overstimulated...still is, actually, but that was new to me when I adopted him.

The cats that got me loving kitties were Ian's mom's cats, Fraidy and Ethel. I thought cats were slinky and mysterious and aloof and would shred me with their claws. But these ladies are sweet, sweet, sweet
 

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I was a cat person as soon as I met my first cat... that would probably be about age 9 or so, when my grandparents dumped two barn kittens on our doorstep. Tiger--despite her unimaginative name--taught me how to speak Cat, and I've never looked back since. She died while still a kitten, because my mother dumped her at a friend's farm and she got Feline Leukemia, and when she began showing symptoms was put to sleep. My mom tried to keep this information from me, but I overheard her talking to the vet and cried for days.

It still makes me sad now--Tiger did so much for me; she not only helped me learn what cats are all about, but she helped me recover from my first stepdad's erratic, often abusive behavior and was the first "person" to show me not only unconditional love but unconditional kindness, and didn't expect me to act "like everyone else", just took me at face value... Only a kitten, and she did all that! I wish I could have been there for her when she died; and that I could've kept her from being sent away to that farm. Life just wasn't fair for Tiger.

I did technically know a cat before Tiger: We had a cat when I was a baby in Germany; her name was Katike (pronounced "cutty-KEH"), but when my dad died when I was two, my mom gave her away to a relative, so I don't have any memories of her. My mom says she loved chewing up cardboard boxes.
 

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No, I thought, I was. My mom always had cats when I was growing up, but they were always hers. She took care of them, fed them, did the litter thing, and as much as I liked them they were "just cats" I never got it.
Until I got Sam, my poor sick boy, I lost my heart to him, and I was a goner after that
 
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