Should Single Men Own Cat(s)?

[BEAVER]

This topic came up at the bar last night.

My take - Single guy owning a cat = Beta and should not happen.

There are some extenuating circumstances by which one might end up with a cat. Dead Wife, Girlfriend, Mom, Sister.

But if a single guy actually makes the effort to get a cat as a pet? Unacceptable.

I knew the final word could be found here on CP. This place is a bastion of what is right.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by Rainbarrel

If you've ever been licked by a cat. You never want to close your eyes around one again

You can close your eyes around a cat. You just can't dip your junk in a can of tuna fish and then lay around the house nekkid with your eyes closed. That way lies madness . . .

[scho63]

The last single guy I know on CP who professed to be a cat lover and own cats got permanently banned for losing his shit fighting everyone, getting banned, created mults, got banned again and no longer is a poster.

Single dudes who own cats are weird.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Rainbarrel

If you've ever been licked by a cat. You never want to close your eyes around one again

Really? I dont have that experience. Their saliva doesn't really make a smell on you. Its why they are able to bathe themselves. My only real complaint with dogs is they smell and pant and lick you like crazy. Their drool is nasty. A well trained dog shouldn't but Ive learned every owner thinks their dog is well trained yet it will attack you, constantly lick you, nip at your toes and shoelaces, jump up on you and just bother you repeatedly mainly because its just excited. I like dogs, just not untrained dogs which as a visitor Ive noticed is most.

[Shoes]

The reason you even like cats in the first place is because of a parasite in your brain
Your brain is home to millions of protozoa, but one in particular, called Toxoplasma gondii, manipulates your behavior to force you to like cats.

This parasite, which lives in 30 to 50 percent of the world's human brains, can only reproduce in the digestive tracts of cats. And, like many living things, it wants to continue surviving, so it has to continue reproducing. But if it lives in human brains, how can it reproduce? Enter cats.

Scientists studied the behavior of T. gondii in the brain of a rodent, an animal normally petrified by cats, and uncovered extraordinary results.

T. gondii manipulated a rodent's brain to remove the rodent's fear of cats, slow the rodent's reaction time, and made the rodent attracted to the smell of cat piss. Now, the newly-brave, manipulated rat thinks it can befriend its mortal enemy, and it can't. The rat still gets eaten.

As Vice put it:

"The fact that a parasite has learned to sneak into brains, hack some biochemical wiring, and effectively reverse a deep-seated, primordial fear that’s been beaten into the inherited psyche of every living rodent is, in a word, bonkers."
Yes. Yes it is. And T. gondii does the same to you. It deludes you into loving cats.

https://www.elitedaily.com/women/cat...ly-suck/709388

Too lazy to fact check but it supports my argument that cats suck.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Really? I dont have that experience. Their saliva doesn't really make a smell on you. Its why they are able to bathe themselves. My only real complaint with dogs is they smell and pant and lick you like crazy. Their drool is nasty. A well trained dog shouldn't but Ive learned every owner thinks their dog is well trained yet it will attack you, constantly lick you, nip at your toes and shoelaces, jump up on you and just bother you repeatedly mainly because its just excited. I like dogs, just not untrained dogs which as a visitor Ive noticed is most.

Domesticated dogs rarely attack people.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Really? I dont have that experience. Their saliva doesn't really make a smell on you. Its why they are able to bathe themselves. My only real complaint with dogs is they smell and pant and lick you like crazy. Their drool is nasty. A well trained dog shouldn't but Ive learned every owner thinks their dog is well trained yet it will attack you, constantly lick you, nip at your toes and shoelaces, jump up on you and just bother you repeatedly mainly because its just excited. I like dogs, just not untrained dogs which as a visitor Ive noticed is most.

It isn't that they are untrained. It is that they know you are beta to them so they are ****ing with you.

[Megatron96]

FYI: dog saliva is cleaner than human's.

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

FYI: dog saliva is cleaner than human's.

FYI: You are wrong.

You’ve probably heard the expression “a dog’s mouth is cleaner than a human’s mouth” at least once in your life. Most of us have just accepted this as fact, when we think about it at all, but have you ever wondered if it is actually true?

Here’s a hint: the answer is no.

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/he...r-than-humans/

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by jd1020

FYI: You are wrong.



https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/he...r-than-humans/

"In fact, dogs have more than 600 different types of bacteria in their mouths, which is a similar number to the 615 and counting types of bacteria Harvard researchers have found in human mouths. "

so slightly cleaner. But 15 more is 15 more.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

"In fact, dogs have more than 600 different types of bacteria in their mouths, which is a similar number to the 615 and counting types of bacteria Harvard researchers have found in human mouths. "

so slightly cleaner. But 15 more is 15 more.

The number of types has nothing to do with the cleanliness.

[displacedinMN]

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[JohnnyHammersticks]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

...You just can't dip your junk in a can of tuna fish and then lay around the house nekkid with your eyes closed . . .

Why am I even here then?

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks

Why am I even here then?

[BEAVER]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

No


Could be click bait but fits here


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It seems that single male cat ownership is often paired with a mullet. Did NOT see that coming.

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Originally Posted by Donger

Okay. I had a mental image of a small shower building filled with little pellets of Zyklon-B and a tiny furnace.

Based off your DC posts, this is not surprising.