Trivia: Fear of Cat

• kickinnc
  January 9th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

• kickinnc
  January 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

  Some of the pics on icanhascheezburger might explain those fears. Besides, isn’t “irrational” a relative term?

  http://icanhascheezburger.com/

• Terry Austin
  January 9th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  What is the name for the rational fear of cats?

• VonSkippy
  January 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

  @Terry Austin
  “What is the name for the rational fear of cats?”

  They’re called “Dog Owners”.

• Tempscire
  January 9th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

  Any fear of cats should be considered irrational.

  Oh, no– a tiny a subset of people who can’t enjoy lolcats! Poor, poor ailurophobes. :’(

• mr. picky
  January 9th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

  What’s the name for the rational hatred of cats?

  Until the inlaws cat ran away (hooray!) it would pee on my pillow and in my suitcase every time I visited.

• otterly
  January 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

  This black girl I knew was deathly afraid of cats, she said they could look into your soul or something. Especially when they panted, she said the cat was stealing you breath? WTF?

• Algonkin
  January 9th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

  Ailurophobics are Pussies!

• Stevie
  January 9th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

  Another sufferer - Imhotep.

• Levi
  January 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

  that pic actually looks just like my cat…

• Daniel Kim
  January 9th, 2008 at 10:38 pm

  There’s also Ranma Saotome of the Ranma 1/2 manga. He suffers extreme fear of cats, due to childhood trauma. A short description can be found at Wikipedia, of course.

• Gellner
  January 10th, 2008 at 3:15 am

  Fear of cats isn’t entirely irrational if you consider that one of the main driving forces for primitive “humans” to develop larger and more complex brains for reasoning purposes was predation by big cats.

• Ali S.
  January 13th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

  I seem to have a knack for animals since cats and dogs always seem to like me. That’s great and all…until I’m wearing my good clothes and find animal hair all over it!

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