2 Replies to “Cat Discrimination”

  1. I went to a cat show at MSG a few years back. Look, you live with cats. They don’t sit, stand, roll over, walk down a runway with you. And there isn’t as much grooming backstory to fill time and make sales. My cat is watching me type this, and, well, while that sort of interaction is wonderful for those of us for whom it is wonderful, face it, it’s boring after say ten minutes.

    What happens at a cat show is that the cats sleep a great deal and are admired by judges and some of the other cat people. Not a lot of TV action. Makes the Westminster Dog Show seem fast paced and exciting, like L&O.

    Much more interesting are the cats who are hanging out at or involved with the booths all over. There are always a couple of products that are downright weird. And the cat fancier types, who are, well, you know, not so normal either. This is not the “Dykes and Their Cats” (sweet book) crowd. You see that in the dog show, too, I guess, but you could probably find a gender preference angle too, if all you had was a hammer. The men with the dogs are men, after all, even if notsomacho, and there are disproportionately more women at the cat show.

    I think. Or I could be making it all up, in my present state.

  2. Because dogs can be trained and like to show off what they’ve learned. Cats just look at you and go, “What?” Unless of course it involves food, in which case cats go, “Hey, what don’t you understand about priorities?” I think if you had a cat show on TV, they’d all decide to boycott the cameras and sleep.

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