This is funny because the most unhappy and anxious people I know are cat owners.
Dogs are for people that need the reassurance of the unconditional love
Cats are for people who have the kind of levels of self-confidence that makes the unconditional love of a dog both suffocatingly annoying and suspicious.
Get a terrier. Best of both worlds. You have to earn their love, and they're as prickly as cats sometimes.
But you can also take them hiking, skiing, biking, or just chilling by a campfire growling at hypothetical bears in the dark forest at night.
Yes, might be really the case. I'm pretty much a cat person and when I'm thinking about getting a dog, then terriers are pretty much on top of the list.
They are also much smarter than cats, which cat owners have problems to admit in their confidence.
A dog is something different and special
I used to think this until I got a dog. The love is not unconditional and the dog takes more work to maintain than the cat.
“Dogs are for people who want a much more interactive pet.”
Would you feel suffocated and suspicious from the unconditional love of your child? Its not about reassurance, its just that it is a beautiful experience in this life, and i give just as much love back to my dog.
if you view disinterested cats as the ideal relationship, I hope you can separate that from your human relationships
Do I detect catholic guilt ?
If you think your cat is randomly mean to you, then you really don't understand your cat, you don't correctly read the clues it signalizes to you.
If I'm e.g. petting my cat and don't stop if she starts wagging her tail, which pretty much means she's overexcited, then she will scratch me to make it more clear to me.
To expect that your cat is all the time interested in you also seems honestly quite a bit narcissistic.