The Cat

[Madhav Deshpande]

I would like to add support to Gopal's statement from the experience of my
own family.  Since my grand-mother's time, we always had cats in the
family, and I, as well as my wife, practically grew up with cats.  We have
continued to have cats here in Michigan.  The first thing my daughter did
last year after she got married is to go and get a cat.  Growing up in
Pune in the Brahmin community, it was more common to have cats as pets
than dogs.
                                Madhav Deshpande

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, K V N Gopal wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, S Krishna wrote:
>
> > Mary Storm writes:
> > << Hindus rarely seem to have cats as pets, Muslims more
> > >often. The Prophet was himself a famous cat lover.
> > >A humourous Hindi short story about a wily cat and it's inadvertant
> > >"murder," and the complicated penances engendered, might be apropos
> > andfun for you to read, the story is called "Penance," and is by
> > BhagavatiCharan Varma.>>
> >
>
> I am not sure if it can be generalized about modern Hindus/Indians. In
> recent times I have seen many Hindus (even uppercaste conservative
> families) having cats in their houses. Sure, the percentage may still be
> very small but it is definitely increasing. In our own house after a few
> dogs in the last 30 years we have been having about 5 generations of
> cats.. including 7 currently.
>
> gopal
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