People Who Hate Cats Live With Cats For A Week // Presented By BuzzFeed & Rachael Ray Nutrish

[lbbp]

When I was a child I wanted a cat and one day a bedraggled calico kitten showed up at the back door. My father, who considered himself a cat hater, only relented because I was very ill at the time. Fast forward a couple of months and my father has my mother and me doing all his bidding because "I've got the cat on my lap and I don't want to disturb her." She lived to be a very spoiled 22.

[mayqueen]

The blonde girl and the smooshy grumpy kitty are obviously soul mates.

[Pepapig]

My dad “didn’t like animals”, it took me ages to convince him to get a kitten. Few months of having him, my dad carries him around the garden on his shoulder and every afternoon they take a nap together. Cats are awesome!

[kimberlypatton]

My late husband was the king of cat haters! Until I took him to adopt one to keep him company at home during the day after he became disabled and in a wheelchair permanently. He then TOTALLY became a the best cat daddy there ever was! And he said to me, “ I just never realized just how bonded you can be… how much is just an “understanding “ of love you can have with them!” It is something so intimate, so personal at times that it can almost feel like ESP! I love my cats.. and to hear that from him meant the world to me! He bought his cat, “Fu Shen” the very best food, toys, water and a litter box that flushed away with the toilet hookup! He told me several times he had awakened in his recliner to find Fu Shen on his chest with his nose in his face… checking to make sure his breathing was okay… his love affair with cats began, and grew until he passed away in 2017…. At the time we had about 30 cats and kittens we fostered… the happiest I’ve ever seen him!

[jontonian]

I am a 51 year old tattooed, big biker looking dude and I have 7 precious kitties. They are my babies. I love coming home to them after a long day of work.

[danawinslett]

My husband has been suffering from anxiety ever since his heart surgery. He wanted a dog (he's a dog person), but there are a host of reasons why getting a dog wasn't feasible. I adopted a cat, and she is his soul mate. She hangs out with him all day, sleeps on a stool on his side of the bed at night and he hasn't had an anxiety attack in over a year.

[AndrewBlacker-wrve]

I was a dog guy for 40 years then my daughters wanted a kitten that grew into a cat.
Then they sort of lost their attraction for it.
After a couple years, me and the cat got very close.

I owned the cat 16 years... She taught me all about being a cat.

[albertpaul]

Everybody gangsta til the miniature tiger starts vibrating.

[olgateixeira]

“ I hate cats”
10 secs after having a cat “ what if she doesn’t like me???”

[LittleHobbit]

"They don't really love you."
I would actually argue the opposite? As I often tell people, dogs will love you regardless of almost anything you do, but if you have a cat's love you know it's because you actually _earned_ it.

[jaycepero]

I had all these rules for our kitten. She couldn’t be in our bed etc. The first night we put her in her bed and closed the door to the room. She meowed incessantly, so we opened the door, and I told my wife “she’s to small to jump on our bed, ” she clawed her way into the bed and has slept with us for three years. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for her.

[bribright]

Begining of the video: "I hate cats. I've just never really liked them.."
End of the video: "This is Mildred."

[redsquare]

The main problem is that people expect cats to act like dogs. But they are such different animals, they think and express love differently. Once you get to know more about how cats think, they are so much better and can really be appreciated :)

[truthlove]

Cat purring on your lap is the best feeling in the entire world. Just calms you down. Pure happiness

[ComeOutOfHerMyPeople]

42. Had dogs my entire life. Adopted a cat last year.

Best thing ever.

It’s true. You’re not a cat person until you get a cat.

[theonebeam]

"the cat picks the person as much as the person picks the cat"

THE WAND CHOOSES THE WIZARD HARRY

[KarinMaka]

Cat: *Scratches up arms whenever held*
Blonde lady: "Ow f*ck, the claws, the CLAWS!"
Also Blonde lady: "She's the best"

[YsabetJustYsabet]

Am I the only one who thinks that the blonde woman and the cat are just exactly alike, personality-wise?  GREAT match!  :)

[daderpywalrus]

I’ve had my cat for 18 years. She is my everything. She’s an old baby and i don’t know how anyone could hate her. She cries all night due to dementia sometimes, but I’m glad I’m able to be there for her in this time of need. And I will be there with her until she passes on :)

[emutresh]

I would lie and say that I hated cats so I could have a cat for the week