Dating women with cats

I came across this post and had to share it with you. There aren’t tons of blogs that make me chuckle like I did when I read the last paragraph.

Cats and the Single Girl
Blog by Gwen Cooper

When you’re an unmarried woman over the age of 30, there are probably only so many cats you can have before people start referring to you as “the crazy cat lady.” I myself have three. On the occasions when somebody presses me to give a home to a fourth—and it’s always a sore temptation—I tend to respond by saying something such as: “I’m one cat away from being known as Old Widow Cooper….where the neighborhood kids walk by my house and throw rocks at my window, and say things like, That’s where Old Widow Cooper lives. She’s craaaaaazy…”

My best friend, Lisa, puts it more succinctly. “You’d be unfuckable,” she says.

My first two cats came into my home more than 10 years ago. At the time, I was living with the man I planned to marry. The two of us wanted pets, but felt that we didn’t have the time and attention to devote to a dog. So we got cats–and I am now heartily ashamed that I ever considered them a second choice. (Mommy loves you, babies!)

My third cat, Homer, was taken in after my ex-fiancé and I split and I’d ended up with sole custody of our feline offspring. Homer was only four weeks old, and had been abandoned at my vet’s office after a virulent eye infection had necessitated removal of both his eyes. My vet called with a long sad story–perfect for a cable movie, if only there were a station called Lifetime for Cats–about how nobody would take in this blind kitten. Not even the people on her list who had specifically expressed a wish to adopt handicapped cats.

Newly single at the time, I was of the strong opinion that it wasn’t in my best interests to take in a third. But I was practically sobbing by the end of the story. “I’ll come in and meet him,” I told my vet tearfully. “But I’m not promising anything.”

A pillar of fortitude I am…

Read the rest of the article on her blog at wiredberries.com.