When I lost my last cat, my employer could not understand why I was so
upset. In his favor, he did send flowers though and let me take time
off from work. But he still didn't and to this day doesn't understand
my feelings. Then another person at work started wtih "so are you
getting a new cat now?"

I live on a dirt road and in the spring and summer months, it gets
quite dusty. I have a cat with asthma. I have to call the city for
them to come spray the road, otherwise, they hardly do it. So when I
call I always tell them my "daughter's" asthma has been very bad, can
they please come spray the road. Now when I call they recognize me
and say "oh, you're the lady with the asthmatic daughter." (I know
the city wouldn't care if I said I had an asthmatic cat.)

As to men and cats, I find a man who loves cats to be much sexier and
more of a man than men who don't like cats. My husband is extremely
manly when he lets our cat Mickey nurse on his beard