Did you know …
That it’s a misconception (albeit a very common one) that cats like to be pet? It’s true! Cats hate being petted!
We only started petting cats about 150 years ago. Before that the idea of petting a cat was unthinkable to essentially anyone who wasn’t a sociopath. Let alone the hygiene issues, it was widely known that cats found petting to be intensely uncomfortable. In the 1860s, however, proponents of clean, healthy living (Kellogg and his ilk—think whole wheat and cold showers) began to spread the message that content cats gave off pheromones that excited the libido and poisoned the blood. To keep cats in a state of pheromone-free discontent, they advocated regular cat-petting. Cats, not being very smart, have no idea how to deal with this torture other than to sit still and wheeze.
The whole idea of pheromones was nonsense, of course, and probably stemmed from one of Sylvester Graham’s many excuses for his sex addiction.
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