I said it in 2020 and it is ultimate truth. However, I unexpectedly ran into a noble exception a few days ago while visiting a family who had just got themselves a young beagle dog. I lifted the animal and kissed it twice on the head to check out its musk. And imagine my utter surprise, the dog smelled nice like a cat. Amasing!
Many of them seem to think liking cats is a bit weird and maybe a bit deviant (feminine if it's a man) and they're shifty creatures somehow - not like dogs, which are good and solid animals, which everyone must of course love - and you have to just tolerate these beautiful creatures' stinking feces everywhere and not mind when they bring them to the pub or a cafe, where they run around chasing each other and making ear-splitting barks every five f*cking seconds.
Basically, Poles are to dogs as the ancient Egyptians were to cats. And, like Catholicism (their other religion), there's only room for one animal god.
@Miloslaw When was the last time someone's cat - of a breed literally bred for violence - ripped a small child's face off? Now when was the last time someone's ridiculous German camp guard dog / husky / gigantic overseas breed, kept cooped up in a 40m2 "two room apartment" until it was completely and utterly insane, did the same?
When was the last time you found yourself dodging piles of cat sh*t littering the street of a residential Warsaw/Krakow neighbourhood?
Poles' dog pathology is ABSOLUTELY WILD. They worship these horrible, stinking things and just let them run riot.
"What?! You do not like dogs? Myślę, you are the gay O_o" - see their mocking of Jarosław Kaczyński for literally the only likeable thing about him: he's not just another deranged Polish dog-maniac.
I very, very rarely see cats strolling about. Sometimes I see them in people's windows. I feel like being a cat in Warsaw must be like being Will Smith in I Am Legend, with all the bloody dogs everywhere. Poor little f*ckers - when one set of people in the block have one of those Nazi camp dogs and the others have a sodding Tibetan mastiff (both kept in tiny flats until they're totally bonkers, of course), it must not make for a feeling of general relaxation and safety.
One of the reasons I like Bielany (other than it's just a nice, relatively cute place, at least by Warsaw standards) is that I seem to see more cats (and less dogs) there than anywhere else. So, yep, tracks with what you said - further from centre!
@Bobko
Saw this post and couldn't resist replying. I like cats, can't stand dogs (filthy, irritating creatures) and thought I'd comment on Poles' dog nonsense - such is the level of conformity in this country that you almost feel browbeaten into being a 'dog person' by default just because everyone else seems to be and they can't imagine why you wouldn't be, too.
I really dislike dogs immensely and all the selfish dog owners here p*ss me off so much. The area I live in is covered with sh*t and I have to listen to constant barking - it could definitely do with MANY less dogs and a few more cats.
@WarSore Yep. And one of them may well be mine. It's a nice borough. Stare Mlociny (theoretically in Bielany) is cat central.
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My late downstairs neighbour had 6 collies in a flat that can't be more than about 100sqm. He was a surgeon and was out all day leaving them to bark. Nice doggies, but they deserved a bit more freedom.
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