Edit for this: thanks so much for all the support, I’m heading over tonight again to cook some dinner and hang out. I’ll express my past with cats to him of course. I did a little research and I’m pretty sure she’s a Maine coon if anyone’s curious lol. He said she was extremely expensive and drove a couple states away to adopt her lol. That also added to my fear since she’s the size of a medium dog.
Throwaway account because he’s very active here and I’ll be deleting later. I’ve been seeing this guy for a couple weeks, and I went over to his house the other night for some drinks.
I am terrified of cats, as well as dogs… I’m not really an animal person lol. My mother had a cat that hated everyone and everything growing up. I’d be doing my homework and it would just tear me to shreds for no reason. It was small as was I, and she rehomed it because it would tear me up so bad. So since then, I’ve been scared of them.
He has this massive puffball named Pancake and he expressed that she doesn’t really care for people. I was already sweaty before I walked in. The cat was freaking huge, and I almost passed out when it ran over to greet him. It was 90% fur and 10% face.
I got over it for the time being. The cat wandered off somewhere while we talked and hung out. Then it proceeded to terrify me by jumping on my lap and doing some sort of headbutt to my hand and crawling on me. My date proceeded to laugh and make some “oooh she likes youuuu!” comments. I moved out of reflex and my date got confused about it. We’re new to the relationship and I see a future with this guy. But I desperately need to get over my fear if I wanna be with him. I also don’t know what would piss a cat off or make it happy…