Comments on: Breaking up over a pet is not insane

By: retrieverman

retrieverman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:48:49 +0000

I would never stay with a woman who didn’t like dogs.

There are two absolutes for me:

1. She must like dogs as much as I do.

2. She can’t watch Fox News without making fun of it. If she watches it and considers it real, then that’s as bad as dog hating.

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:24:26 +0000

I’m pretty sure she didn’t consider it much of a loss — I sure know I wouldn’t.

Noting that you consider grown women to be “girls” pretty much speaks to where your head is at. Good luck finding that “girl” who’ll put you at the center of the universe as you so richly think you deserve to me. (Hint: Even if you do find one, most “girls” grow up to be “women” who eventually get over fawning over selfish, self-centered louts and move on to grown men.)

Meh.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:15:12 +0000

One of the reasons I broke up with the last girl I was dating was because she had four cats. Now, it’s not that I don’t like cats, I love cats, but when a girl spends more attention on her cat relationships than developing your human relationship thats were I draw the line. Sorry, but I’m just not interested in dating an obsessed cat lady.

By: thetroubleis

thetroubleis — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:43:51 +0000

I could never be with someone who didn’t love animals. At least with having a service dog in training, I know if they hate dogs up front.

By: Annette

Annette — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:35:00 +0000

my hubby went from a man who tolerated cats but didn’t really like them, to a man who willing lets a cat sleep on him. :)

By: Mary Mary

Mary Mary — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:01:18 +0000

I do a lot of education and advocacy work through the local shelters. Plus fostering. There is a group of about 20 other women that I’ve met through this volunteer work who are equally, if not more, involved.

Many of them have mates that I NEVER see at anything. Not at the events, the shelters, the rescues in the field. Yet they do not complain about the men.

It fascinates me, as a single person, to see these women so heavily involved in this volunteer service when their mates are not. It takes up such a huge part of my life; I can’t imagine not sharing it with my husband or boyfriend.

Hmm.

By: diane

diane — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:30:49 +0000

Eons ago when I was single, I had an orange tabby named Eliot, who was sort of an emotional barometer of men I met. Men who recoiled from him, or worse, made sick jokes about cats, turned out to be not so great around people either. Eliot introduced himself to the man I eventually married by jumping into his lap and kissing him on the nose.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:32:41 +0000

My husband didn’t know he was a cat person when we started dating. His father was in the military when he was growing up and they didn’t have pets because they were overseas a lot. He was in the military and lived in the base dorms when we met so he couldn’t have a pet. I had 2 cats and have always had various pets including while growing up, so I let him know the cats were there to stay. He got to know them and he is now a definite cat person. We have four indoor cats. We even a female part siamese/part tabby with gorgeous blue eyes that has him wrapped around her little paws.

By: Dorene

Dorene — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:28:44 +0000

When I was doing the online dating thing, I always mentioned that I had two Persian cats. If you couldn’t handle cat hair floating around, there wasn’t any point in reponding to my profile. Being upfront really cut out any further hassales and I ended up finding a great husband who convinced me to add a dog to the mix.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:55:50 +0000

My boyfriend doesn’t care too much about dogs. He likes them alright, as long as they are outside. I’ve always been more of an inside dog type of girl. We had to work long and hard though this issue and fought over it more than any other. Finally, we have a literal contract on it. My current dog will be an inside dog, allowed only in certain rooms of the house (excluded = kitchen, bedroom, bathroom). All other dogs after her will be outside, but well sheltered with a porch and dog house. It was hard, but I think we came up with something that we can both live with.