So....you're a cat person...

Originally Posted by Kelicat

I've always considered myself more of a dog person, until a few years ago, when I realized, no, I"m a cat person! I will always have a dog/dogs though. Not sure exactly what triggered me to realize it... maybe when I realized I spend more money for the quality of my cat's food then mine

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That's similar to me. I grew up with a family dog and still love dogs. I would love to have a dog one day, but B's put his foot down on that. I realized that many times we fight I begin looking for dogs on petfinder

I've always like cats, but never imagined myself with 4.

I have always been a cat person. By the time I was 9 my entire bedroom wall was covered with Garfield comic strips that I'd clipped from magazines. My very first drawing at age 2 was Tom, from the Tom and Jerry cartoons. I'd watched the cartoon for the first time and copied Tom entirely from memory. I think that was the moment people realised I was going to be catty I've always had the tendency towards CRAZY cat person....

I have known that I wanted a cat from the time I was about 3 years old My first animal was a dog named Brownie He ran away when I was about 8 years old...I begged for a cat and prayed everynight that I could get one but Dad always said no because his first cat TC died in his arms from a stroke and he didnt want me to hurt like that...One day after staying with my grandparents all summer they have about 40 cats all feral that they feed and I would usually tame about one or two every summer to play with when I came back. My mom came to get me from their house and on the ride home she said you want a cat dont you? I said yes I really do I will take care of it change its litter box get it declawed(before I knew declawing was bad) and spayed and feed it...she drove me to the petstore and I picked out my first cat I was 9 years old...and thrilled we brought her home she was so friendly she kept licking my nose and she was so curious she checked the whole house out in about an hour then my dad came home...he sat down and she jumped right in his lap and licked his nose He said Barbie what is this...she said why Jim its a cat he said I know that where did it come from she told him that I wanted it and he said that he would chose her name...He named her diamond because she was mostly white with a few black patches on her one of the black patches was on her nose in the shape of a diamond! I had her until May of 2005 when I had to put her down...That was by far the hardest day of my life...I said I would never have another cat and that evening DH(then boyfriend) showed up with a little 6wk old Tigger and I was in with him!!! I knew at a that point that I was a cat lover!!!

Originally Posted by theimp98

maybe the real question is,,
how many cat people are people people ehhe

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My mom gave me a pillow embroidered with "The more people I meet, the more I like my cat."

But I love people, too. Although sometimes I do catch myself quoting Linus (from Peanuts): "I love mankind. It's people I can't stand!"

I am an animal person, but I grew up as a dog person because that was all I was used to. It wasn't until my old boss brought in a box with a kitten he found on the dock. His little black and white head poked out of the box and I was hooked! He spent the whole day playing with the papers on my desk and snuggling up to me (I didn't get much work done that day). I brought him home, and that's when I realized cats really do have personalities! Ever since then, I've been the crazy cat lady in the family. I'm now getting used to dogs again, but cats are my first love!

Ive been a cat person since I was a baby! I lived on a farm when I was a kid, I remember when we first moved in we went to explore everything, there was all of these out buildings everywhere! So many different buildings! So we went looking in them and we found this one that had all of these dead things in jars! (they were in alcahol or something!) and we got in there and this cat pops out! Her name was Whiskers! She had kittens, I tamed her and her kittens and brought them inside, and she gave me one named Jimmy! He was grey and white and just marvelous! I loved him dearly and Whiskers just kept on giving us more kittens! (which we needed because we lived on a big farm)
And everyday the lady that use to live there would bring this food to feed all the animals, she had left a dog there too when she moved so we took care of it for her, but she wanted to come by everyday to bring them food, it was the nastiest stuff Id ever seen and I can still remember the smell! Im pretty sure it was her own whacked out version of a raw diet! We had so many cats, but Jimmy was mine! We also had some ferals, one named One Ear because he had his ear frozen off during the winter before we got there and turned the heat on in the barn! No one could get near him but me! He would scratch their eyes out!

I love dogs. But I have a cat that I love too. She will be my last cat but she will probably outlive my current dogs and she will still be doing great when my kids go to college.

I think I've spent a total of 3 years of my life without cats. And I missed having cats during those years. I would say the 2 or so years in college (in the dorms/and 1 apartment) made me realize I can't stand not having cats in my life. So I went looking for "a" cat. And then I got Raven & Nabu. I've learned my lesson, if you go looking for a cat, the universe gives you many.

I think there have only been a couple of years in my life where there haven't been cats around, I have always wanted a houseful of animals, and no kids, although when I was first in my house, I wasn't going to have a cat cos I didn't want to be tied down. That lasted two days, until my neighbour asked me to take a cat in, she lived on the next street, her mum had died, and her mum's son said he woudl microwave her if no one could help, so I took her in. And that was the start of it really, due to fostering and taking on oldies that dont have a long time with me, I have had over 50 cats since then, and it is only 5.5 years ago!! Ironically, when I lost Charlie, the first cat, I then went to the local rescue the day after as the house didn't feel right, then my mum told me I was stupid cos Ginger didnt' have a home, so I picked him up the week after - so 10 weeks after thinking I wasn't goign to have one, I had 2!!

I realized it this past year. I have always concidered myself an animal person, but I have in the past year turned into a crazy cat lady. . . I have broken down to thier will. . .

Originally Posted by lunasmom

Brandi's thread "A what point..." inspired this thread.

So...when do you realize you are a cat person?

I realized it about 3 weeks ago when a coworker that I sort of know gave me a kitten calendar for Christmas

That's when it dawned on me: I've become a cat person.

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I have one of those! It says THE 3-6-5 KITTENS A YEAR on the cover. In fact, if you look around my house, I'll bet you can find several sitting around, I could never throw one away.

When I bought a litterbox

Honestly, I went through a period a few years ago where I really disliked cats. Well, one cat in particular. If you knew me then you'd be shocked to find that I now have 2 cats and am part of a cat forum.

I've ALWAYS been a cat person. Growing up, we always had at least one cat. There was never a time when I did not have a cat.

Except a brief period when I lived in the dorms in college, I've always had a cat in my life.

My mother told me that i loved cats since i was a baby, our neighbour had a cat and i was just fascinated with it, i would smile when ever i saw it and sometimes my mum would let the cat in the house and i would pet it (roughly 10 months old) Then when i was 6 years old my parents let me keep a kitty that we found in the garage. I named him sheba I have loved cats all my life and would never swap it!

Trav loves kitties too, and he wants to get another one when we return to Australia, this shall be an interesting experience

My Aunt Lotty had a cat who liked me more the older I got. My Mom got a cat, too. Like other members, all pets love me. Pheromones or something.
RIP Brownie strolled on our deck 12 years ago and I fed him ice cream. Yeah, like he was going to leave after that! When he passed, I just had to get another cat. When we got Butzie, I realized that I was a cat person.