Women and cats go together, especially in urban areas

[TexasTowelie]

SEATTLE – As a forty-something single woman living alone with a cat, Jeanine Foucher is well-aware of the negative stereotypes conjured up by that particular coexistence: a frumpy homebody without many friends – a spinster, even – the cliché of the “cat lady.”

“No, I don’t have framed photos of my cat around my apartment,” she laughs. “I’m more a dog person, really … but somehow or other, I’ve wound up with cats.”

Foucher, a busy development and philanthropy professional, shares her apartment with Nick, a neighborhood stray she adopted about five years ago. She had two cats at that point, but the other, Cleo, died a couple of years later.

If Foucher doesn’t pay much mind to the cat-lady stereotype, perhaps it’s because she bears no resemblance to it. And maybe it’s also because here in Seattle, there are so many women like her.

Read more: http://www.abqjournal.com/682202/news/women-and-cats-go-together-especially-in-urban-areas.html

[darkangel218]

1. Duh!!

Like we need freaking map!!!!...

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[polly7]

2. Hi, we understand you are 40 and still not married ....

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I have a sweet cat, and a dog ... but most of my male friends have cats too, maybe I just picked good friends.

[hlthe2b]

6. My doggie girl wants a cat... really wants one. I like cats, but don't want to adopt one.

But, my little doggie girl really wants one.

If only she could learn to clean the litter box....

[polly7]

8. Awww ....

My dog apparently likes my cat and keeps trying to make him play ...... heck, even acknowledge he's in the same house. My cat puts up with him .... barely. I'm not sure if it's a matter of cat was here first, or just that he's a haughty little jerk around him and very jealous (but I love them both and kitty is sweet, just has a little 'tude when it comes to Obie).

(I hate the litter box, too.)

I don't blame you if a cat is not something you want, your doggie girl sounds adorable. Can you get her a toy kittie?

[Demeter]

3. And the point of this?

We are supposed to feel good about something? Bad about something?

Why not get on the backs of all those men incapable of sustaining a relationship, no matter how tenuous, with a person of the opposite sex?

[LiberalLoner]

5. +1

[hlthe2b]

7. Yup... We still demonize single women.

[AngryAmish]

9. ...

[JonathanRackham]

4. So, get married and adopt.

I've lost track of the multiple cat adoptions my wife and I have done over the years. We always have 3 in the house but over 30 have passed thru our lives. Dogs are a minority, we've only adopted 4.

I couldn't imagine life without stepping on an occasional wet fur ball in my bare feet first thing in the morning.