I have to say that I think only those who have animals themselves truly do.I think my family and friends think it's quite sweet and classify me as a slightly (well perhaps more than slightly!) eccentric animal lover who is OTT with regard to the love,care and expense I go to to try to ensure that my cats are leading happy lives.But I don't think they understand the rewards I get from it.There are those (who i wouldn't put in the category of friends) who feel slightly sorry for me and tolerate me,as if I must have something "missing" in my life that I go to this much trouble for animals (how wrong can you be-if only they knew what they were missing?) Just wondered about the reactions you get from other people in your lives?.................By the way,I feel in excellent company on this forum!!

it has taken 10 years for my family to get to grips with it.... now at christmas if my mum wants me to visit the cats have to come to lol!

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I am sure a lot of my facebook friends think we are nuts but quite a few have cats. I think most people see that we treat Ella, Archie and Cleo as our kids and as a gay couple it is probably the nearest we are going to, or want to get!

I mean when we got Cleo we wanted another girl so Ella wasn't the only girl in our house!

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hahaha that was my excuse to even out the genders but to be honest i just wanted another lol!

My bro and his partner have a staffie and are adding kittens to their family who needs kids lol

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lol my family and oh family are not that into animals as we are and always say dont you have enougth lol im like well no lol

so when is enougth enouth ? lol i think they think im going to be an old single woman stinking of cat pee lol well im not as half the cats are oh haha sorry im a bit drunk and rambaling on a bit now

hahaha funny, yeah my brother says i'll be a spinster with cats well i'm ok with that lol
I thought 5 cats was bad but i could always make it worse lol

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On the whole yes they do understand. My in-laws are cat people and two of my friends are cat people. My other friends don't have cats but most are animal lovers and they understand how much the cats mean to both of us. This was especially apparent when Bob died. It was sudden and we were heartbroken. But I was very, very touched by our friends' reaction - lots of long phone calls and all the time in the world to listen to our grief. We had a lot of tearful evenings drinking toasts to Bob and we felt very supported. I suppose you find out who your friends are when something bad happens, and not one of them let us down. We have one bizarre friend who famously does not like household pets, (weirdo!) he wouldn't have understood at all so we just didn't tell him.

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Rescue cats for many years, currently one moggie and 3 young Maine Coons.

we have 6 now lol its so tempting to get more .keep looking at rescues its driving me insane lol

don't i have spent the whole day looking at dog rescues i soooooooooooo want one. I have a flatmate and she is just as crazy as me cat crazy but she thinks we have loads already, but i want more lol

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yeah my brother and mum finally got it when my bella got a tumour and i had to nurse her for 9 months until she was ready to go, they were really supportive before that they thought i was a freak lol!

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