As a city kid growing up in the 1940's and 1950's
As a city kid growing up in the 1940's and 1950's into early 1960's, did any of you have a kitten or cat for a pet????? Or just puppies and dogs?
We grew up in the city and actually hated cats as the only cats we saw were outdoor cats called "alley cats".......seriously. Everyone had a dog....raised from puppy stage.
After we were married in 1965, we always had puppies and dogs.....every breed imaginable.
Ditto for when our children were born and very young.......but then in the mid 1970's to early 1980's we switched to kittens and cats.....and they were characters.
Actually, they were much easier to have around or to leave when we went away........other neighborhood kids would feed them, etc. We miss all of our pets.........especially the cats.
Anyway, does anyone have any alley cat memories from the above posted era? Why did we dislike cats so much???
I'm sure the rural folks out there did have cats at home, right?
Barn cats, etc.
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