My mother always hated cats, don't know why, she said they would jump up on counters and that they were dirty. I believed her. I moved in with my then to be husband, and his cat promptly pooped on some of my clothes that I had been unpacking. Funnily enough, I didn't scream blue murder. After all, it's a little critter after all. Anyways, in the space of being married 27 years we have had a number of kitties, at one spot in our lives, no kitties as I began to get allergies. Then the allergies stopped. So our most recent kitty is Crescent a white and black. Our most affectionate adorable kitty Maxi just passed away. We had him for about 14 years. I still cry when I think about him. He had a tumour in his mouth, we tried to keep him as long as we could, but could not bear to see him suffer. he was a Russian Blue. Hope he is having a happy time in kitty-kat heaven.