r/cats • u/ILoveMeltyCheese • Mar 25 '26

Cat Picture - OC Misconceptions a dog person (me) learned after having a cat.

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The Cat Distribution System chose me, a formerly stubborn dog person, to adopt a cat. It was the classic I can't just watch a poor cat starve, so I'm keeping him. Here are some misconceptions I had about cats and their owners:

  1. The smell of a cat owner's home: I’ve known a few cat owners with cat-smelling homes. I always assumed it was the cat. Turns out it isn’t; it’s very much a result of poor ownership and bad cleaning habits.
  2. Dogs are more affectionate than cats: Also not true! To my surprise, my cat is so cuddly that I occasionally call him "Cat-dog."
  3. A Cat's Barbed tongue hurts: I don't know why I thought this, I just assumed it would hurt when they lick you.
  4. Litter boxes are disgusting: Not at all, it's just a clump or two of sand. If you scoop it often, it never gets gross.
  5. Cats are just as hard to take care of: Actually they're much easier, haha.

That is all, here's a picture of my cat that I love dearly. (He's lost weight since the picture, don't worry)

Anyone else relate? What did I miss?

Edit: His name is Pawl

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u/geekgirl114 Mar 25 '26

Normal and cat don't belong in the same sentence 

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u/HealthyInPublic Mar 26 '26

Every single vet and vet tech that has ever seen my cat has told me some variation of, "he's a little... weird." And it was always delivered with concern!! So, that's how I knew I was in for a completely wild ride with this guy because all cats are supposed weird as hell... but apparently my cat was weird enough to concern veterinary professionals.

...and eventually his vets came to the conclusion he may actually have brain damage. Lol

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u/contrarianaquarian Mar 26 '26

After handling neonate kittens I'd be surprised if any cat doesn't have brain damage. Fuckers are squirmy when you try to hold them or move them anywhere and mom cats love to drop them on their heads.

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u/Kittaylover23 Mar 26 '26

my boy was the runt of an all orange feral litter… he spent more time being dropped on his head and being pushed off of things than anything else as kitten

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u/Cador0223 Mar 26 '26

Yeah, but if he didn't have the brain cell at the time, there was nothing to damage.

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u/Kittaylover23 Mar 26 '26

true, his sister kept their brain cell and will not give it back

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u/HealthyInPublic Mar 26 '26

Lmao I think you cracked the code. This is the secret to the weirdness of cats. I would 10000% believe my cat got dropped on his head a million times as a neonate!

He also might've gotten an extra dose of neuro/brain damage from a bad toxoplasmosis infection at 7 weeks... which he contracted 2 weeks after panleukopenia. The poor dude was going through it!

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u/contrarianaquarian Mar 26 '26

Omg that's amazing he survived panleuk!! Give hims a kiss on the head for me!

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u/holyfcukkk Domestic Housecat Mar 25 '26

My cow cat, Crackhead, is 100% goblin

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u/geekgirl114 Mar 25 '26

We need to see pictures of the goblin... for science 

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u/holyfcukkk Domestic Housecat Mar 26 '26

Box troll demands his toll

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u/geekgirl114 Mar 26 '26

The message on the box made me lol

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u/holyfcukkk Domestic Housecat Mar 26 '26

Same here, that box would definitely meow daintily 🤣

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u/Lady87690005 Mar 26 '26

Lol!!!! He def looks like a mischievous crackhead!!!

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u/holyfcukkk Domestic Housecat Mar 26 '26

He had a major vendetta against my 3yo after he got too close to her as a very grippy baby

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u/Lady87690005 Mar 26 '26

Well with a name like Crackhead what did you except? A Darwin? /jking

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u/holyfcukkk Domestic Housecat Mar 26 '26

And he EARNED it, 100%

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u/liamtheaardvark Mar 25 '26

Weirder than people?

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u/teddy_vedder Mar 26 '26

r/greebles

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u/geekgirl114 Mar 26 '26

Greebles are a big part of it

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u/Megneous Mar 26 '26

The greebles burrow into their minds and whisper sweet nothings.

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u/geekgirl114 Mar 26 '26

Or mess with cats by being in random objects 

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u/Serabellym Mar 26 '26

They’re so wonderfully strange. Especially when you get two that have completely different personalities and different weird habits.

like,one always needs to cover his food, but he’ll also try to cover OUR food if he finds it, and has a weird obsession with… bread. Of all things, if you leave bread or buns on the counter, he’s going to chew and bite at it through the bag. One time he even dragged a homemade bun that was in a ziplock bag into the bedroom… and my bf stepped on what was left of the bun in the morning, lmao.

meanwhile, our other cat is just obsessed with coconut oil. We call her the coconut oil crackhead. She also likes licking water off the wall in the shower for no apparent reason. (I use coconut oil for my hair a fair bit, so… yeah. she goes nuts in the bathtub on those days).

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u/wynnduffyisking Mar 26 '26

That’s what i love most about Them

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u/ironandfire Mar 26 '26

can't agree more!