Do you meet people who are afraid of your cats ?

No I have never met anyone who has been afraid of my cats. I have met people who don't like cats but that is OK because have had cats who do not like certain people.

yea, you are right. I am surprised that grown up adults who seem to be fearless otherwise get scared of small harmless cats or even kittens. I've had similar experience when I had some people over to carry on some re-wiring and the man there when he saw the kitten at home refused to enter and complete the work - finally I had to keep the cat at the neighbours till the work got over - which took almost a week. I don't know why this fuss- though I even offered to put the kitten in a separate room and close-even that would not work- ridiculous!!

I don't think I've ever met anyone who's afraid of cats although I've met plenty of people who don't like them. I have to take that back, I think my grandma might have been slightly afraid of cats, the one I had as a kid made her a little nervous. She was one of those people who believed a cat would smother a baby in its crib. My brother had a cat that I became sort of afraid of, he became very hostile toward visitors after my nephew was born. He would growl and hiss at anyone who came near and they had to shut him in another room when we came over.

Yes I have my partners sister is afraid of cats. She says that they are evil because they have strange green eyes that stare at you. When she came to stay with us my poor cats were not allowed in if she was in the house, I even had to feed them outside which I was not too happy about. As you can imagine I was glad when she had left (so were the cats). But I am going to have the same problem when I eventually make the move to Ireland as one of my cats will be going with me. (the other is staying with my eldest son as he is his cat) I have told my partner that he cannot expect me to keep locking my cat up when his sister comes over as I find that unfair on the cat. So we are going to have to find a way to work this out.

My friend, Noor, is terrified of them. When I had my first house, a group of my friends decided to get me a kitten. Noor was one of them and she was terrified the whole way from the shelter to my house.

maybe his mother had been attacked by a cat or something like that or maybe she just didnt like cats and wanted assurance that he'd never want one we did once have a big mean cat ourselves that a friend gave us. she was humongous as a cat and attacked people she didnt know from ontop of something. usually she would just jump on them tho and run.

I have met people who are afraid of cats, or who hate cats, and I wonder why? I have four cats, as I have said before in other posts, and they are the best things that ever happened to me. Frisky, Tommy, Goldie, and Lucky are all really awesome cats, and they all have a way of keeping me very entertained. Frisky knows he is the oldest, he knows he is the wise one, and he likes to take care of my other cats. Tommy is a renegade, or the rebel. He loves to go outside, he likes to pee where he wants to pee, he loves every cat he meets, and he is very loving. He has actually taken in kittens and taken care of them as if they were his own. He is very sweet. Goldie is the princess. She loves being held, people and other cats have to do things for her. She has to be first for everything, and she loves people. She goes so far as to greeting people at the door and she wants to be held by everyone she sees. She is also a drama queen and she loves boxes. Lucky is the last one and the luckiest cat there is. When my mother and I first found him, we did not have high hopes for him because he had blue eyes, he was feral, and it just did not seem like he was going to make it in life, and he totally proved everyone wrong. He is perfectly healthy, he has perfect vision, he is a perfect weight and height, and he is very intelligent. He also believes that he is human or should be, and some of the things he does and the way he responds to us is amazing. I am so glad I have him. Cats are pretty amazing animals. They all have different personalities, they all do some crazy things, and they just want to be loved. I do not think that any cat is evil, but I just think that people have to get to know them. Every cat is different, and I found this out when I had my first outdoor cats, Salem and David Jr. Also, my friend had three female cats named BB, Precious, and Sparkle. BB was the mother of Frisky, Precious and Sparkle. BB was pretty independent, but Precious was very needy, until Sparkle came around. Sparkle looked exactly like Precious and for a long time had her exact personality. The two sisters got along very well, and Precious even mothered Sparkle. It's pretty cool seeing how cats change and grow from birth to adulthood. I encourage people to get educated on cats and to see that they are more human and more like us than we think. My grandmother used to be afraid of cats as well, until my four came along, and boy did she change her mind fast about cats. She realized that they were very human-like and that they are all very unique. She also realized that they do have feelings too.

when i first married my husband( long time ago, 42 years !!!)i was not a cat person, i preferred dogs, as my family had always owned dogs, never cats. I wasnt afraid of them , i just didnt have any interest in them. we lived with my husbands family and they had a dog and a cat. The cat fell instantly in love with me, big tabby called Tim, and would not leave me alone. i would push him away, push him off my lap( not roughly )but to no avail. So gradually he 'grew' on me. I still own dogs, but have also owned cats. At one time i had 5 cats, but now I still own 3 plus 1 dog. At least 4 of my dearest friends do not like cats. One was so frightened, she would keep her windows shut on the hottest day, in case a cat appeared. i was there one day, in our local social club, when a cat strolled in and my friend was hysterical. Another couple of friends, would come to my house and sit there while the cats swarmed all over them. and it dawned on me that they were sitting there too polite to scream "GET THIS CAT OFF ME!!!". So it is not a case of love me , love my cats, its their choice and their fear, so i wouldnt dream of making anyone frightened. Incidentally, i get hysterical with wasps and daddy long legs !!! far smaller, but they scare me senseless!

I have not met anyone afraid of cats but I have met a couple of very mean cats. Siamese cats have been the meanest ones. My mother had one and when I went to visit her once as a child, it would act like it wanted you to pet it and then the minute you tried, it would attack..lol..She made me a little nervous when she come rubbing my leg and purring..LOL

There seems to more fallacies about cats than dogs. Even though cats are the number one pet in America. Yet when you go to stores you will inevitably find more food items, toys, etc for dogs than cats. I think this lack of information about cats is why so many people believe or have all these untrue stories about them. Plus cats have a long history of being known as an animal witches had or being connected with witchcraft. So I'm sure there's a discrimination against cats that is unwarranted. Before I got my cats I also had some strange notions about them. But as soon as I had an opportunity to truly interact with them I fell in love with cats. I found out how intelligent, warm, loving and playful they are. Cats have so much personality and my cats used to keep me laughing all the time. There was never a dull moment. As far as that worker was concerned he has a far better chance of being bitten by a dog than a cat. I have definitely come across people who are afraid(including myself before I got them as pets)of cats. Since I've had them as pets and know how gentle they are I find it incredible that anyone fears them.

Actually, now I think about it, I have never met somebody who is scared or even slightly intimidated by a cat However, as for dogs, I see people all the time who literally jump out of ther skin at the smallest of barks

I've had people who didn't like my cats. But, then again my cats seemed to know this and would hide from "strangers". But, if someone is afraid I respect it, and I don't let it get to me. Some people are just raised to think cats are dangerous. I live someone who feels that way about dogs. So its no big deal. With roumors of cats being "protectors of the underworld". I mean I can see where he might've been coming from.

No I have not met people that are scared of cats, but of dogs yes. It's mostly because they ahd a bad experience and do not trust the at or dog anymore. Sometimes people have different fears, but everyone does always have them too.

I've met such people too. I have a cat that behaves just like a human and is not dangerous at all (when there are no dogs around, of course). He wouldn't hurt anyone, because he's just too lazy. Unless the person was annoying him a lot. But when people come to visit me, some of them are really afraid of even coming close to him, not to mention touching him, because they think he's going to attack them. But if he likes the person, he never attacks them, he just goes under the bed or something. Of course, I can't explain that to people.

Mostly Ladies and Kid get afraid whenever they come in our home and cat come before them. But your case is amazing LOL. Cat is just a homely animal. They can not hurt any unless you do not try to naughty with them.

My neighbor don’t like cats. They say that when you have cats your life will be miserable because the only food you have can steal by them. And also the waste of the cat is really awful smell it brings. I believe in that but there is a reason behind. First of all the waste of the cat will be smelled if you will not clean it and when you allow the cats to have their trash on your place. Second the food will not be stealed if it is safely keep. So what is the problem now? That is the reason why I hate my neighbors, they kill cats but they allow their stupid dogs with rabies to bite children on our place and they are escaping their responsibility. That is obviously why I do not get along with them. I can respect their opinions about cats but I can’t accept curled reasons. Cats will not scratch your skin unless you do something that can hurt them. That is called their defend to save themselves, which everyone can do. All I know is that I love my cats, I respect them and they love me too.

i personally know of 3 persons who were afraid of my cats, one of them still is. the one who is still afraid of cats is my good friend. she finds the eyes of cats scary because they look evil when slitted. my sister used to be afraid of anything that is furry and moves. she would scream if a cat brushes against her legs or a dog moves closer to her. now she carries my cats all around our apartment and looks for them every five minutes. another one, who is still learning to accept cats, is my colleague. she is still afraid of anything furry and moves but she has come to love one of my cats. i have met other people who has very weird perceptions about cats too. the evil part may be due to the association of cats and witches. but parents who warn their children that cats bite? i've heard that many times and i have to admit i'm amused sometimes. in my eleven years of cat slavery, i've only been bitten twice. both times were due to the fact that my fingers were covered under my cats' favourite food.

Most the people that come into my home are a little more than then careful around Miss Kitty Kat. Its because they know her. I have three cats but Kitty is the only one that anyone fears. She is mama to the other 2 but her size is smallest. She's leader of the pack. She will do one of three things to you. Attack, molest, or ignor. When encountered by Miss Kitty she IS the one in control. Your only hope is the spray bottle of "Cat Repleant", ingredient; water.None of them like they way that spray bottle looks.

this is the first time i heared the adult afriad the cat.So amazing i think. =lol= May be he was a mouse in prelife.

Yup! one of my closes friend is afraid to cats..the reason behind her story of being afraid to cats is when she was a just a kid while playing on her tree house a cat jump on her cooking toys carrying hamskie (her hamster) and in front of her that cat keep on biting hamskie until the blood spread on her toys and killed it. ouch. nasty little cat. i think that incident make a phobia to my friend. well really she was just a kid then so she really don't know what to think about cats. i know not all cats are like that but some are.