More on Felines

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My post on Wesley’s birthday presented me with a load of comments for which I was grateful, but I did notice that they were all from the ladies. (I never know when to use girls, gals, ladies or women?)

Are cats a ‘girly’ thing? I don’t think so.

I know that traditionally the feline and feminine are seen as synonymous, the argument going that cats, like women, are well groomed, mysterious, detached, neat, precise, poised, independent, complicated, unpredictable, maddening, irritable, sleek, elegant, and expect you to read their minds and, when you inevitably fail to do so, will lash out erratically.

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My brother doesn’t like them and I know of other men with similar views but I have never met, or heard of for that matter, a woman say that she hates cats. I know there must be some, but not many.

I haven’t always liked cats, it’s true. When we were children we had an aviary in our garden and used to breed budgerigars. Of course this meant all the local moggies came round and sat on the wire roof. We had to keep going out and chasing them off.

But with age I have got to liking them. Why? I can’t say for sure but they are good company and of course you don’t have to take them for walks.

I suppose overall you will find more cats have female owners. I never see any other men buying cat food in Sainsbury’s.

As everyone, (except Adrian) liked that picture of young Wesley, here is another this time with his (late) sister, Lizzie.

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A bit of digging around did come up with quite a few famous male cat owners, including Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, Marlon Brando (who reportedly found a stray on the set of The Godfather and incorporated it into a scene), Alexandre Dumas, Winston Churchill, T. S. Eliot, and Russell Brand.

I also found the results of a survey done by the Cats Protection League that found that 85 per cent of men and 94 per cent of women don’t think it’s wimpy or needy for a man to love his cat.

I also discovered a survey that showed that owning a cat makes men more attractive to the opposite sex: it shows we have a kind, caring and sensitive side.

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And a grown up twelve year-old Lizzie.

And lastly’ and probably the most controversial was this survey by the University of Bristol, that found that cat owners had better academic qualifications than dog owners (although there are cat owners who would suggest that the answer is perfectly simple, in that cats are more intelligent than dogs, and therefore pick more intelligent owners).

Please……. don’t shoot the messenger!

Although, I’ve always thought that cats were smarter than dogs……..

You wouldn’t persuade a team of six cats to pull a sledge, that’s for sure!

And did you know a group of cats is not a team, but a clowder?

And did you know that catgut is made from the twisted intestines from sheep?

And that……………………….

"GUTS" is arriving home late after a night out with the boys, being assaulted by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to say, "are you still cleaning or are you planning to fly off somewhere?"

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