Poll: How do your spouses/partners/SOs feel about your cats?

I already had Tucker when we first met & as time went on we adopted two more(or they adopted us) plus we are fostering some shop kittens.
Mike is wonderful with them, too. I couldn't ask for a better guy!

We adopted our cats together!!! Athough, if we had met any later I'm sure we both would have had our own cats.

My hubby had a beautiful odd-eyed white long haired cat when we met. I knew he was a keeper when he said he had to take me home to meet his cat.

Since then we have adopted many cats together, and at least one he adopted as a present for me! We also have had 3 odd-eyed whites together since.

JOsh and Trout napped together the first day they met

I'm single. I would love to find a man. I will not date anyone who doesn't like cats. I also take the animal's opinion of any man into consideration.

Angie

I voted for "Bonded right away with my cat" and "we adopted our cat together"- my bf never had cats before, and had been severely allergic to them for the past few years. I started volunteering at the shelter to get my "fix" and fell in love with Albus. My bf had noticed that his symptoms around other people's cats was not as severe anymore, so I filled out the paperwork to adopt Albus on a trial-basis.

Just before we were going to take him home, he came down with Fatty Liver Disease. It was really bad and they weren't sure he was going to make it through the night. He did, and the next day, I brought my bf to the shelter to meet him for the first time.

Even though Albus was not looking so good, it was love at first sight with the two of them. We brought him home and my bf's never had a reaction to him. And the Fatty Liver problem is gone!

So technically, we adopted him together, but he didn't meet him until after I decided and they were instantly bonded at that point.

Kitty was a birthday present to me from my fiance last year. He loves cats, and instead of getting me the puppy I'd been wanting I got a cat. Good choice!

however, he had no idea how much Kitty and I would bond and snuggle and so forth, so I think hes a bit disgruntled bout that. maybe the next kitten will love him more

DH loves our girls. They keep him company while I am at work

My baby babies my babies! Hahaha..

He LOVES my cats. Every time I refer to them as "my kitties" he corrects me, saying "OUR kitties". He plays with them constantly, snuggles them as he sleeps(he even lets them steal his pillow at night, which even I won't do!), and is just.. awesome with them. He even helps me with their chores--that's right, including cat boxes.

I am lucky! =D God help him if we ever break up.. And the kitties, because they love him too!

Gil bonded with the cats straight away, especially Rosie

Originally Posted by Rosiemac

Gil bonded with the cats straight away, especially Rosie

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don't you know? He's actually Rosie's boyfriend and she is kind enough to share him with you!

DH loves the cats just as much as I do! He didn't know how much he was a cat person until he got together with me. I had a cat when we got together. He had had cats before in the past when he was younger. But since we've been married we got another cat so now we have two!

He loves them! They are our children!

We adopted them together, in fact, it was DH who saw Stanley online and decided that we needed to drive an hour to the rescue to adopt him.

He loves them completely.

DH only tolerates all of the pets we have had. He is not a pet person and all of them know it. He is okay to feed them but nothing else. Butzie will even avoid him but it is nothing he has done so I figure that something happened with her former owners.

Mike's family had a cat before I met him, but Felix wasn't as affectionate as my 2 were. He didn't know what to make of my cats when he first met them. Nabu wanted Mike to pick him up and loved him from day 1.

Raven on the other hand "tested" Mike. I still smile when I think about it. The first few weeks Mike and I were dating, Raven wouldn't let us touch. He would cram himself in between us even if we tried to not make room. Raven also pretended to be stepped on by Mike for some time. He was very sneaky about it. And Mike swore he wasn't stepping on the cat. (I was thinking he was the clumsiest guy EVER) Until the day I caught Raven doing it. He would be at least a foot or 2 away from Mike, then run away and scream like he was being crushed. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen! He was trying to get Mike in trouble (because invariably I would yell at him to watch out for the cat). In the 7-8 yrs we had with Raven he and Mike made peace and were known to cuddle together.

Stimpy was adopted as a mutual decision. And I think it made Mike feel more included in the pet stuff that he got to name Stimpy.

I love reading everyone's stories!

My SO Matt and I dated for about 2-3 months before Oliver decided he approved. One evening, Matt was exhausted after a bad day at work, and Oliver decided he needed comforting and went to sit on his lap. Normally, Oliver will go to me first if I have someone with me, but he knew Matt needed him. They've been buddies ever since (except when Matt's eating something and Oliver decides he wants a taste and shoves his big furry head in Matt's face).

Rocky, OTOH, took close to 2 years before he decided Matt was OK. I don't know if he associated Matt with loud noises (Matt is a musician and a sports nut, and he tends to keep the volume on both *loud*) or smelled his roommates' dogs or just plain didn't like him, but one Saturday afternoon, I came home from doing errands and found them sitting together on the couch. Rocky still prefers me (and for that matter, women in general), but he will deign to let Matt pet him.

Keep the responses coming!

I'm not currently involved with anyone, but I would never get into a relationship with a guy who did not like cats, especially my cats....and animals in general actually.

A few years ago I tried those online dating sites. I made sure that I mentioned that I had cats and that it was important to me that the man I become involved with likes cats.

A guy contacted me and we talked and hit it off. He told me that he would be interested in pursuing an in person meeting. He then added that he doesn't like cats, so I'd have to get rid of them if we were to start dating.

I told him bluntly that when given a choice, my cats win every time! And told him that he had some nerve to even bother contacting me to begin with knowing that I had cats. He told me that he really liked my profile and thought I would be more willing to compromise if the right guy came along.

I told him that the word "compromise" isn't in my vocabulary when it comes to my cats.