How to Convince Your Reluctant Partner to Get Cats

A battle long in the making.

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I love cats. I am an unashamed cat lady. However, my partner has not always been on board, and owning cats is a joint project by necessity.

If you’re like me, you’ve always been totally convinced that only a cat (or better yet, several cats) would make your life complete. However, when I was persuading my other half to consider getting a cat, he was not 100% on board. He’d always been more of a dog person.

Notice I used the past tense there.

I was a determined future cat mom, though, and I knew what I had to do:

1. Find out what specifically he objected to about cats
2. Figure out why his objections didn’t apply to cats
3. Pick out the cats
4. Make him fall in love with our future cats

Step 1: the objections.

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There were a heck of a lot of objections.

“Cats are too small to cuddle. Cats aren’t loyal like dogs. Cats aren’t as affectionate as…