You are an unusual individual, I hope you relish that. :) ok so; two questions. What’s kitteh’s favorite treats, and how hard was it to get him there without dying?

Do you know any good cat dad jokes?

That sounds adorable. Thank you for the reply! Though, weren't you afraid of her getting scared and running away? Or does the dog bag have any measures against it?

I think it’s their sporadic behavior and smelly indoor poop that really gets to me but I know cats are cool .

I love them all. I see a stray orange cat that wanders the neighborhood and another stray one with boots. They let me pick them up and hug them.

I've been taking the medication for years with no problems. My wife has too, and she tends to be sensitive to a lot of meds. These drugs have been around for many, many years, especially the OTC drugs like Claritin and Cetirizine. They were prescription-only for many years before becoming generic. The side effects are extremely well known and controllable.

As for your "emotional" issues towards cats, that's another story. I suggest that the best treatment for that would be to live with a couple of cats for an extended period of time, and see how they affect your "emotional allergies." I suspect you will come to appreciate their entertaining qualities.

What are the long term effects for the medication? I am emotionally allergic to cats

I’m another cat dad from the DMV. There are a lot of us here!

Got my little buddy secondhand. Was dating someone, she adopted a cat out of the blue, I come home to a small black kitten looking at me in my living room like it owns the place.

I picked him up and that was that. He came to prefer my company over hers, and when we split and she moved cross country to be with her sister and mom, she wanted me to keep little dude, since I was home to him. For the next three years I was single early 30s cat dad and it was me and him through the pandemic, he’s become a semi-lap at and would stick around while I told him about my day. I know he didn’t understand the words but he came to my voice and sat next to me. Very cathartic. My friends all come over and everyone loves playing with him and he just kinda chills on people’s laps. He’s very social.

Met a girl, we moved in, she brought her doggo, and my cat now has a very dumb but lovable brother, an identically sized and colored Shihtzu he snuggles with. Life is good.

That’s awesome! We’ve been teaching Tora tricks but we haven’t been able to teach her the pooping on the carpet of our enemies trick yet. Maybe we’ll work on that next!

I have a cat, someone put me in a movie about it. Now I’m here talking about it, I guess, I don’t know 🤷‍♂️

I have severe cat allergies, but I've been able to have as many as five cats at once with daily medication. I started with Claritin, but I switched to Cetirizine and Monelukast (Singulair). Those two both work on allergies, but in different ways, so it's a very effective combo. I get the Cetirizine at the wholesale club very cheap, and the Montelukast was prescribed by my doctor. It's expensive but insurance covers it. I think there may be a generic version now.

I didn't believe that medication would work, but it really did. I had a favorite cat who would sleep next to my head every night and I didn't get sick. I know it's the medication working, too, because I've stopped taking it a couple times as an experiment, and the symptoms start to come back in about 3 days.

Start with generic Claritin (cheap), and take it for a couple of weeks, and then visit someone with cats, and see if you have a big reaction.

It was overwhelming for both of us at first to be honest. She wasn’t a fan of people crowding her to take pictures, I wasn’t a fan of it either, I felt like I made the wrong decision at first. Thankfully she gets carried around in dog backpack so she was able to just hide from people, I didn’t have that option so I just walked away. We sat off in a little hallway and watched everything play out. There were other cats there and we watched them for a while and watched people line up for the movie, chatted with some people that didn’t know we were in the movie which was a good break from the pressure. After hanging back for a bit she warmed up and wanted to take part in it. We went back on the carpet and she ate treats in the middle of it until they wouldn’t let us stay there anymore lol

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Every single time. She never has a big stretch or a big yawn without me commenting on it

Thanks! It’s been such a wild experience. I thought seeing the documentary would make it feel real but someone it feels less real now. I can’t believe it!

lol. How does it feel to be a "slave" to technology? You're a moron dude, let this guy have his time

You are a what, from what?

Yes but be prepared for the consequences… she licks everyone she meets

I’m not trucking anymore, actually. For a few years I was living in the truck working 70 hours a week, taking 3 days off every 3 months or so, it all caught up to me at once. I decided to take a break and realized how much I enjoyed doing things other than driving a truck all day. I just bought an RV so I’m still traveling I just get to do it on my own terms while exploring creative outlets I enjoy like photography

How does he manage his allergies? I love cats but always avoid them due to my lifelong allergies

If he has severe allergies, how did you mitigate that to be able to have a cat?

Are you still trucking? And if so you do manage to fit the shiw biz commitments into your schedule?

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Love this comment! We have 2 sisters that, even though they’re 11 now, still act like kittens! They were also rescue cats.

We definitely know who is boss - and it isn’t the humans in the household lol!