Having a Cat Might Actually Impact Your Mental Health. You’re ALL Guilty of #13.

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86% of cat owners don’t even know they’ve experienced these thought patterns.

 

1. We have entire conversations with them where we talk back to ourselves in the cat’s pretend voice

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2. We’ve somehow accepted the fact that something’s going to be destroyed every time we come home

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3. We trick ourselves into thinking they love picture time, even though photo evidence says otherwise

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4. We let them to walk on our keyboards until the search history looks like it belongs to a crack addict

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5. 80% of our phone’s pictures are of our cats, but we don’t upload them to facebook because everyone already thinks we’re nuts

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6. We can’t suppress the urge to correct ignorant people who call the female cat “him” or the male cat “her”

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7. We let ourselves be coerced into petting sessions due to this face

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8. Which inevitably escalates to this

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9. And we don’t stop until we’re allowed to

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10. We feel deeply hurt when we actually want their affection.

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11. We let them hunt every extremity on our body

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12. We let them have whatever they want, even our own precious food

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13. When we can’t get them to stop doing something bad, we just film it instead

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14. We allow disgusting things to happen for absolutely no reason

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15. We spend money on expensive cat toys, knowing they’ll only ever like strings

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16. We feel deeply ashamed when the vet scolds us for overfeeding our cats

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17. We tolerate the passive aggressive retaliation when we put them on a diet

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18. But eventually, we learn to embrace our cats’ new look

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19. We willingly clean an animal’s fecal matter

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20. We’re more annoyed than scared when there’s a loud noise at 3 AM in the morning

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21. But at least we don’t need an alarm clock anymore because 6 AM is when they decide to be fed

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22. We allow them to make going to the bathroom a social activity

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23. Mainly because keeping the doors closed leads to this:

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24. We gladly accept the fact that every piece of clothing we wear is going to be covered with cat hair

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25. We feel hopeless when we realize our cat isn’t interesting enough to be famous on Youtube

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26. We simultaneously regret the decision to adopt a cat while desperately wanting more cats

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27. We don’t get up when there’s a cat in our lap

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28. We don’t sit down when there’s a cat in our chair

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29. We try to explain to dog people why we love cats even though they’ll never understand

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30. But we don’t need them

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31. Because in the 1% of time they’re not being jerks, cats are the sweetest…

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32. Cutest…

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33. Funniest…

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34. Neediest animals on the planet. Which is good, because we need them too 🙂

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