Cat fancy
Cat fancy describes the subculture that surrounds cat lovers and their hobbies involving the appreciation, promotion, showing, or breeding of cats. Animal fanciers of cats may refer to themselves as "cat people", "cat fanciers", or "cat lovers". The term "cat culture" has also been used, though is ambiguous.
Description
Cat fanciers often wear clothing that identifies the wearer as a cat person. Some of them use cat puns such as meowvalous for 'marvelous', and paw some for 'awesome', among many others. Cat terms such as "porrect" have been used in article titles such as CBS Sacramento's article about two cats living alone in a Silicon Valley studio. According to a 2013 article by Psychology Today, self-identified cat people have more unusual and distinctive personality traits than dog people. The article also speculates that due to the sensitive nature of cats, some people of a similar nature would feel an affinity with cats.Around the world
In Pasadena, California, there is a cat festival called CatCon Worldwide. In 2018, the POP Cats Convention was held in Austin, Texas. There is a cat-themed cruise in the US, named , on which cat lovers can meet people with the same interest and have cat-themed parties.In Morocco, cats are an inherent part of the country's culture. A 2018 article by Morocco World News suggested that people visiting there could think that the Moroccan person-to-cat ratio is fairly close to 1:1. Many Moroccans are said to love cats, and around the cities are piles of food and water trays left for the cats.
Cat Nation, a film by Tim Delmastro about cat fancy in Japan, features Chris Broad, a British YouTube personality. Broad made his way across the country where he documented the numerous strange and interesting cat-centric activities, including cat bars, cat temples, cat islands, and cat cafés.
Singapore has many cat lovers, cat cafés, and a cat museum. It had its first cat festival in 2018.