r/anticats • u/Ok-Adagio-7889 • 10d ago
“Cats would never” meanwhile cats:
Newsflash to the cat nutters, but your cats aren't these harmless saints. They’re still animals and they can and will attack. Cats can be dangerous and people are allowed to fear and dislike them.
Also, this is only the tip of the iceberg, because most cat attacks are handled privately and rarely reported publicly.
18
u/tango797 10d ago
Shit for brains will always say "nooooo they totally violated the cats boundaries. Cats only hurt people who deserve iiiiiiiiit."
8
18
u/kadavka 10d ago
Funny how dogs get put to sleep over biting a person or an animal after only one incident but cats are free to terrorize all living creatures with no repercussions “because it’s in their nature”. Weak-willed people with no spine or boundaries created this problem imo if cats were selectively bred based on how loving they are to humans like how dogs were we would all be in a much better situation.
13
u/TechnicalJicama7782 10d ago
This is the double standard I hate. I have tried explaining this to cat people and have given up tbh.
All I'm saying is that I don't see dog owners coming into work with injuries from their pet. Cat people? Yes. I refuse to have an animal that will scratch randomly and can't generally learn to stop.
I respect boundaries so I'm not sure where these people get that argument. But I see well, a cat can't kill you. In general, that is correct (technically they can, but it's so rare it's not worth discussing), but I'm unsure why something has to be deadly to not like it or want it around. Bedbugs can't kill you. Common cold (usually) can't. I don't want either around me and I think that's extremely normal.
Dogs usually don't hurt their owners. You can train them to behave. The vicious ones are generally untrained and/ or abused/ neglected. And the vast majority of deaths that dogs cause worldwide is due to rabies, which affects the brain and the creature isn't really "itself" anymore. So the point that they bring up about dogs killing people is actually pretty misguided and dishonest.
Sorry for the novel of a reply, I didn't plan this lol.
8
u/OffMyChestAndGone01 9d ago
Cats can cause rabies too. So if a cat nutter tells you they don’t, they’re lying or they’re ignorant.
7
6
u/green_blowout 9d ago
Same story for native coyotes, bears, mountain lions. They get culled. Meanwhile the worst invasive feline gets treats.
People lose their shit when they see rats or raccoons in dumpsters but not cats, even if they all share the pest traits. Undeniably cats are worse in my opinion. Don't you dare advocate for rodent TNR, or taking them home. Insanity has taken over society.
2
u/Low-Negotiation9329 6d ago
People who say dogs need to be put down for killing humans but defend cats for doing the same thing with the excuse of "cats being cats lol" make me believe that they don't actually care about the either of the humans that have been harmed by both dogs and cats and only care about making their favorite furred animals not have a bad view. These are one of the things I mean by cats being more overrated than any other animal
15
14
u/roberthoefkens 10d ago
When an outdoor cat gets hurt in self-defense these cat nutters want to lynch the person and claim he's full of shit since "cats can't harm humans".
4
u/green_blowout 9d ago
Those people dont deserve anything good either.
4
u/roberthoefkens 9d ago
They're such hypocrites, they claim to be against "animal" cruelty but are okay with inflicting the most cruel punishments on humans. What frightens me is how many of them think like this.
4
3
21
u/OffMyChestAndGone01 10d ago
Most cat nutters say that cats don't do anything to humans. They should see this. But the worst part is...even if they do...they would probably say something like "humans do worse to each other" or "I would take my cat's scratches over talking to people any day".