I know more males who are cat people and more females who are dog people. I'm more of a dog person but I have cats too.

It seems to be changing. I have noticed that people who are need more control, tend to have dogs. Cats require more chill peeps. In general of course. I am a cat person, who happens to also have a dog. But I am really a complicate animal person. Someday I may post more, when I am ready for some slings and arrows.

Maybe it's tradition. Maybe they just never had one?

One of my son-in-laws had cats when he met my daughter, the daughter I almost disowned because "she did not like cats as much as dogs." LOL! Now she is the first defender of the female cat that they have, whereas her husband is the male cat's defender. THe cats are Charles and Elizabeth, and let me tell you I love cats, but Elizabeth is a bitch. One of my uncles also was a cat lover. He had 4 cat for a long time, 3 were exotic breeds and one was just a cat. The "just a cat" was the most fun of all of them.

My experience has been that fewer men ADMIT to liking cats. My dad, for example- total cat person, can’t sit down without a cat getting on his lap, told my mother they should keep the feral kittens that she (my mom) trapped in the horse barn...and still tells people he doesn’t like cats and they’re not “his” cats!

My boyfriend has 3 cats and I have 2. We got together when I had a shirt with cats on it and he started a conversation with me about it. Someday we will have one household with 5 cats. Woop, woop.

It was a couple of days , before I realized a cat had moved in with me . And given birth to her litter of six kitties . She gave it a lot of thought . The back yard had a lot of little lizards , and other small prey . It was quiet - no loud dogs or kids . She found a protected spot she could easily access , but other animals could not easily get into , it was shady and out of the rain , on a side porch I didn't frequent . On my own , so few conversations , no loud radio or TV . They didn't like the sound of male voices . When a male came for whatever reason , the cats immediately went into hiding , and stayed hidden for twenty minutes or so , after the males left . In my opinion , at least a part of the reason cats seem to be more often with women than men is the noise factor - cat's choice .

I think plenty of men like cats.

I think its more of a control issue......men are not so comfortable with things they can't control and - let's face it, you can train a dog to behave the way you want it to but cats pretty much do as they please.
Also, dogs give unconditional love and affection.....cats make you work for it! hahahahaha

Good question... Dog's are more powerful? So men get an ego boost... Maybe?