Kitty Phobia
July 13th 2009 21:00
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It’s amazing how interesting other people’s phobias are. Yesterday I met a lady who is scared of cats. She told me she hates being approached by them and when they rub their bodies against her legs it gives her the creeps.
“I don’t even know why they come up to me when I don’t like them,” she said.
I unravelled the mystery for her. “You probably don’t approach or try to look at them. When you do that, that is cat body language for good manners so they think you’re being polite and that’s why they will approach you,” I said, regurgitating information I have read in many cat books.
“I should stare at them,” she replied.
“That’s bad manners in the cat world,” I said. “Staring is seen as aggression.”
She walked off, laughing, before I even had the chance to tell her that pretending to like cats will be enough to stop most of them from approaching her – unless they are Butterscotch and Gingersnap.
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