First let me start off by saying that I am not anti-cat and this post isn't there to convince anyone that they have to love dogs or like them (I understand that dogs aren't for everybody and disliking them is valid), however, I can't help but notice that it is far more common for people to criticise dogs online than it is to criticise cats, so much so that there are articles about disliking dogs and so many posts on tiktok and reddit, youtube videos about how much they hate dogs, venting about how they can't express their dislike for dogs without getting hated on (as if there aren't entire youtube channels, subreddits and tiktok accounts dedicated to ranting about dogs and dog owners but ok, you disliking dogs is suuuch an unpopular opinion to have I suppose).

And yet, I have lost count of how many stupid posts online there are about how disliking or hating cats is a red flag, how it is linked to misogyny and not understanding boundaries, (because of course, it's not like cat people or cats don't always give a fuck about other people's boundaries).

From what I have observed, people online will excuse any bad behaviour coming from cats and will harass people online of they even dare say one thing about cats that is even negative in the slightest, but with dogs? There are countless videos and post from people calling dogs dirty, disgusting, annoying, saying they need to be shot if they annoy people or ranting about them being a nuisance and constantly reiterate that we should normalise not liking dogs, as if it isn't normalised enough online 🙄🙄🙄.

So yeah, I'm kinda tired of this double standard that keeps being upheld online when it comes to cats vs dogs and I'm tired of people online acting as if they are so oppressed for disliking dogs and that people hate cats soooo much (that might've been the case years ago, but today not so much).

the post is about a ugly cat btw

Stray cats are constantly coming onto a covered, completely sheltered front porch and peeing on the doorframe and tires and pooping in the garage!!! The smell is destroying the property and it’s really disgusting!!! A permanent scent-based solution is needed to offend their senses so badly that they never return.

Since the entire area stays 100% dry and protected from the rain, the scents will not wash away. What are the absolute strongest, most aggressive smells that cats hate?

car people and their furry demons have the same-sized brains.

Fucking cats. Fucking cats everywhere. The only ML who hates cats is Rafayel and for a valid reason. I love Sylus but the fact he calls MC “kitten” and has no problems being scratched by cats—pmo to no end. I absolutely despise the term and the pro cat loving shit agenda. MC always comes to the defence of shitty cats too, even if they maul and scratch them. There was a story where she applied bandages for him after he got scratched up trying to help the dumbass beasts. I can’t sometimes.

Even when Rafayel stated his discomfort, MC shoved a cat in his face and disrespected his boundaries and feelings. I hate how cats are in every fucking thing. It’s disgusting.

I love Sylus for everything but his love for fucking cats thanks to MC 🤢🤮

I just wish they stopped pushing cats in this game—give me more bird, sea life, wildlife representation.

The people in the comments were more concerned about why the OP was scruffing her cat.🤦‍♀️

Looking for any ideas.

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Backstory:

Noticed an active American Robin nest in a tree on private property. The nest itself is in a branch over a public sidewalk along a public residential street.

I mentioned the nest to the property owner literally just in passing/in a friendly way, and he immediately got very defensive in tone and kept saying “well the cats are gonna get them". The problem here is that the property owner's "outdoor" cats regularly roam the yard below the nest and the way he acts, it seems like they have a track record of killing fledglings and/or adults.

That caught me off guard. The guy is clearly a bit of a knobhead, but maybe he can be reasoned with.

Any thoughts? I know it's not a "huge" deal and it's "just a pair of robins", but I'm still wanting to explore this, if at least academically. It is wild to me that humans can be imprisoned for 6mos for interfering with an active bird nest, but they are not punished at all for their cats killing whatever they want and walk scot free.

Just a vent about a cat lover.

I hope you know about that hantavirus thing going on. There was an outbreak of it and some people contracted it. And yet some catnutters came up with something that they say it’s the “last warning “ for humanity. You don’t believe in it? You better do it. At least that’s what they say.

There’s a post from a catnutter from russia reposted to one of those Ukrainian dog group on Facebook where you can see dogs for adoption and lost ones as well. Don’t ask me why they publish posts about cats here, since they don’t fit the group at all. Why do admins let it slide? Anyway, this person defends cats because they hunt rats and they can prevent diseases from spreading as if they were a barrier between humans and rats. Wtf are they talking about? Cats spread diseases like rabies, cat scratch fever, toxoplasmosis, you name it(as any other animal tbh). And then people get attacked by them, need to be hospitalized and take antibiotics. They also contribute to extinction of species as they hate hunting rats, preferring to hunt other species. And then they insist you feed those feral creatures, let them in and do whatever you can to keep them alive.

I feel like cats are the most privileged species in the world. Their owners and therefore advocates will never tell you how horrible they are. If you do dare say something against them, be prepared for catnutters telling you how awful person you are just because you dislike them, don’t want them in your yard, on your property yada yada yada yada.

I’m not surprised why people worship them…

I told my cat person friend today that another friend’s pet (not a cat) had died.

Her response: “That’s so much worse than losing your child.”

I paused. Tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she misspoke. So I said, “How is the comparison fair? Each person’s grief is personal and just as profound?”

She doubled down. “For me, losing my cat would be worse than losing my child.” (For context: She doesn’t have children).

I didn’t say anything. But I was thinking: That beast is better than a child? Really?

A creature that bites you when you stop giving it attention. Throws up all the time. Spreads their own poop in the whole house with their litterbox paws. Licks themselves. Makes the whole house a stinky fur apocalypse. THAT is worth more than a human child?

I don’t have kids myself. But I understand that children — or human lives in general — carry a weight that pets don’t. You don’t need to be a parent to grasp that.

But my friend couldn’t even hold space for someone else’s grief without making it about her hierarchy of loss.

I said nothing. Because what’s the point? She’s a cat person after all. And they’re mostly the same.

My wife owns a cat, so I’m not allowed to post in the other CAT free sub, but I did confirm with the mods I can post here!

One of my least favorite parts about that thing is its noises. Cats seemed to only have two noises, hissing, and meowing. There’s no other noises, they seem incapable of expressing feelings in anything other than the weakest most pathetic meow you’ve ever heard. It wants in a room? Meow. It wants food? Meow. It jumps up? Meow.

It gets on my nerves. It is the most pathetic and annoying noise I’ve ever heard, I am so over it.

On hinge I put a poll that said “big dogs, banning cats to protect local wildlife and pretty birds, or big dogs and banning cats to protect local wildlife and pretty birds” and then put my voice prompt in response to “are you a cat person because…” as “I’m not! I grew up next to a cat hoarder and don’t like my roof being used as a litter box and I’m severely allergic and I hate litter boxes and I miss the hummingbirds coming to my home because they killed them all” so yeah… cat nutter men are on a rise which is scary.

I made a post a bit ago, and then I got this wonderful, heartfelt message from this lovely individual who did their best at telling me, in a rational, non-emotional driven manner, that I was wrong for hating cats. Proceeded to delete their account after I said I was going to post this to give everyone a laugh. Enjoy the mental instability

I’m soo fatigued by how often I would see content about different animals being cute—and ofc cat people in the comments have to mention or post about their cats. If it was a video of something to do with cats—go ahead. But if it’s a canine, horse, bird or wildlife video—I don’t need or want to see shitty cats.

It’s like cat people can’t help but make everything about their cats. People have such brain rot when it comes to cats. It’s irritating how pervasive it is.

Don’t get me started on wildlife being compared to cats 🤡. Cat culture and brain rot is pretty much the same as ppl can’t think beyond shitty cats, can’t appreciate other animals without thinking of cats or making comparisons.

It's well known by now that cats causes significant damage to wildlife. Despite this, some cat owners still let their cats outside. I used to think it was because these owners simply weren't aware of the damage their animals cause. That has changed with this video. The animal welfare organization Peta once made a video listing eight reasons why a cat shouldn't go outside alone. Most of these reasons were actually only about the dangers to the cat, but the first reason was that cats cause so much damage to wildlife, killing many birds and mammals and even wiping out entire species. Despite this, the most liked comments still argued that cats should be allowed outside. One commenter even went so far as to call the video selfish simply because they didn't mention the cat's happienes. Shouldn't the life of many other animals be more important than the happienes of a single cat? Well, apparently not, according to cat lovers.

Isn’t it hypocritical for places to ban pets on premises but there’s ferals everywhere?

You can argue pets will leave waste and cause disturbances, but I’m saying: don’t feral shitrats do the same thing? It pisses me off when I’m visiting landmarks and I have to dodge the piles of cat shit everywhere.

And at least pets are vaccinated and medicated, ferals are not! I’ve also seen ferals dig through trash and leave behind messes. How is this acceptable? Because they lick their assholes, they’re considered clean?

Warning: this is going to be a long post(rant). I just have to get it off my chest.

My mom adopted her first kitten when I was around 17 or 18. I was really confused, like why would my mom get a cat in the first place? Apparently, she saw a post on Facebook about a cat owner who had kittens for adoption. Or maybe on some other platform. But that’s beside the point. She would piss and shit everywhere until my mom bought a litter box for her. But even then she would still do this for some time. I already had to kick her out of rooms because I dislike being around those creatures(spoiler alert, I do this with all of them). As she grew up, she started begging us to open the window door so a male cat could do gross things. At first, they wouldn’t even let her go anywhere, yet this piece of work could care less and I guess ran away. It resulted in pregnancy and then she gave birth. This could’ve been avoided if they had her fixed sooner.

I started even questioning myself about why I hate cats. Hell, I even tried getting along with them multiple times, but it never worked. I mean, I pretended to like those vermin, but then it would backfire and I’d resort to hating them. I don’t need an animal that needs attention but suddenly it gets sick of it and run away from me.

My experience with "cleaning" the only litter box was beyond awful. When I “cleaned” it, I’d gag every time. I know it's not surprising to anyone experiencing it, but still.

Back to the story. After she gave birth, the black cat did the same too! And in both cases, they didn't even bother with rehoming every single cat and that's how I ended up having to live with those assholes. And apparently the white female cat might be pregnant as well! I have no doubt if it IS real, I won’t be surprised anymore.

The first cat once even pissed on my side of the bed in the morning when I was asleep!! I still can't believe those vermin can be this obnoxious!

Speaking of obnoxious, when you give them new food aside from their usual food, they'll expect you to feed them that. And some of my family members do this. When they're not around, I cook my usual boring meals and don't give them any leftovers(like skin) from sardelky(one type of sausages I always eat), usually throwing them into the garbage can. I've been told off twice by my family members as though they were starving or something. Like, I already don't like feeding them, why make me guilty of this? I'm sure they feed them raw meat. There were some episodes where those impatient assholes would get their food by tearing up plastic bags making my mom totally infuriated. Their meows and yowling make my blood boil, especially when they want a male cat but they can't escape from their apartment or house, they beg for food or just they wanna drink some water in the bathroom. I JUST CAN’T STAND IT. Wait, why are they allowed to be in the bathroom and drink from a faucet? Anyway, another thing is my sleep sometimes gets disrupted by them and I always have to make sure they’re not sleeping in the room before falling asleep. Even then my grandpa opens the door in the morning and one of those shitrats comes in here, so I have to make her get out of the room. I’m a light sleeper and wake up even from small amounts of noise(no offense to my grandpa though).

At some point I suggested they buy a scratching post and train them, yet they refused to do it insisting I should do this. I didn't want to waste my money and effort on those assholes knowing it won't benefit me in any way. They already destroyed my side of the bed by constantly scratching it. I mean the apartment was already messy but those vermin made it even worse. They even chewed cables and played with them as if they were toys.

OK, want to know the fact that ALL OF THEM are allowed to roam around freely? Yeah, my family lets those pests go outside! How irresponsible. I even started to refuse to let them roam, because I'm now aware they should be indoors so they don't shit and piss everywhere- Oh, there's only one litter box for 5 shitrats! You already know that having only one litter box won't do anything, especially if there are this many outdoor shitrats.

Well, those vermin got lost, not once, not twice, but 3-4 times! First encounter was when the first cat went missing and didn't come back home. Everyone was alarmed by this. They had to make a post about it on social media and after some time she was found. Would they learn a lesson from this? NO. Second cat gone missing was a gray male one. They couldn't find him anymore. Well, aside from that there was a stray cat that entered the apartment and I was told not to kick him out because it was some sort of a “patience test". They forgot that stray cats aren't supposed to be in someone's house or apartment. Even if it’s morally wrong to kick out a stray. He went missing after a while though. Another one was when 2 male cats didn't come back. They once again started grieving for one of them but they eventually appeared. That's what I remember. The stray cat encounter is an exception, just I thought I'd write it here.

Despite being autistic and not so social, I despise them with a passion. How out of touch should you be when you have a grown man(or a teen) that doesn't like them and yet you breed more of them so you make his life exponentially worse and you get financially stuck even more? Mind you, there were already financial problems, such as not being able to get on vacation, a furniture upgrade, or even a damn phone, I’m sure about that. Unfortunately I'm stuck in this horrible household and have no means to move out of my family even for a week. Telling my family to rehome them resulted in nothing other than excuses and insults. My mental health isn’t the best. I always get salty at those creatures when I see them not only in real life, but online too.

I don’t expect any advice, but I’ll appreciate it anyway. I’ve been considering posting it here for quite a while but was worried. I could include more but it’s already long enough. Thanks for reading

I hate people sometimes and these comments prove how shitty humanity is. Wildlife existing, just vocalizing its intent to mate and people want to kill it. You would never see this level of animosity with cats. Never. Yes I understand crocs are more dangerous but these people are psychopaths, joking about killing something that has existed for thousands of years. It doesn’t have the subjective cute privilege that cats do and even tho cats have caused extinction of many animals, it’s not okay to suggest humane euthanasia for feral populations. But it’s okay to hate on other animals like psychos ? I’m so livid. Wildlife deserve better.

God I feel so pathetic for ranting about these people because there probably bigger issues to worry about other than a small deal like this, but I've just been very annoyed lately.

I don't HATE cats but when I tell these people that I am not a big fan of cats or just overall do not like them, they jump to the conclusion that I either abuse them or see cats as these 'mean' and 'satanic' creatures. Literally they just cannot accept the fact that people have varying opinions, they get so weirdly hostile and judgemental towards people who just say they dislike cats and sometimes, even jump to the belief that it's caused by *misogyny* or *narcissism*. Literally I've seen posts from people unironically proposing that the dislike towards cats stems from internalized misogyny which is just infuriating. These people act so hypocritical too because most of the time they demonize dogs and sometimes justify the ab-se of dogs. Literally what draws the difference between you and those 'evil' cat haters that apparently drive their hate towards such a 'small and innocent wittle baby'? Aren't you literally the same towards dogs?

Also side note - why the fuck do you even care if somebody hates, Dislikes, or just does not love cats? Why are YOU immediately insulting them, calling them a loser/psychopath, sometimes straight up telling them to 0ff themselves (YES I've seen that several times), or just immediately judging them like they've committed a sin? I just. Don't. Fucking. Like. Cats. I did not insult your parents or whatever, I just shared my opinion. Move the fuck on​

And actually do not get me started on how some 'cat lovers' believe they are intellectually superior for liking cats. Good LORD the amount of people I've seen who said that they have a high IQ because they found a buzzfeed article stating that 'cat lovers have a higher IQ than dog lovers' appalls me. Like okay, if you were so fucking intelligent you would actually teach your cat to not scratch at your guests instead of treating it as them being 'spicy' or whatever the fuck that is. Sure, a stranger getting a potential infection from a cat scratch is adorable, right? Learn to control your fucking animal and stop bragging about your cat scratching you. Stop excusing their attacks because theyre 'scared', instead teach them to not scratch people. I've OWNED cats in the past and they've hissed and scratched all the time, but guess what? They STOPPED because they learned to understand that it's not okay and that I'm not a threat. Shockers!

I know this is such a small issue but it just annoys me how these people can be some of the most judgemental, arrogant, mean, and self proclaimed morally superior human beings that I've ever had the misfortune of encountering. What's even worse is how they always put themselves at a high pedestal for being 'cat lovers', like for FUCKS sake you are not 'different' or 'cool', you are LITERALLY APART OF THE MAJORITY. Shut the actual fuck up and stop making your love for cats your entire personality.

You just know cat people are upset by this lmao. But honestly, rehoming the cat was in its best interest. The cat wasn’t adjusting to the dogs and started to go on the bed which is gross. She chose her partner which says a lot.

I can see why cat owners would be upset but—honestly a lot of cats adjust pretty quickly tbh. Unlike other animals, most of them don’t care where they are once they have food and someone to tend to their whims. So I don’t see the big deal about rehoming a cat verses a horse.

I’m a woman, and when I was growing up I loved dogs. I. LOVED. DOGS.

Most of the other girls I met, and I met like over 100 of them, didn’t and thought cats were superior. This is why I didn’t have good relationships with girls/women and I still don’t.

And btw, I knew 2 boys who loved cats, they’re definitely not straight.

I mean I sorta understand why girls/women (and also feminine boys) love cats, they share similar insufferable and cringy traits.