^I think it's getting more and more uncommon as nowadays fewer people grow up with both species. Thus, to a certain extent they might perhaps be raised to be dog lovers or cat lovers, and since they lack experience with the respective other species they would propably have communication problems with them.
I grew up with both, but definitely am the proverbial “cat person”. Have been since a young age, even though we had dogs before we had cats. (TBH, I don’t actually remember much about childhood... but I do have memories related to the cats!)
I've grown up with dogs, horses, ferrets, jackdaws, rabbits, rats, mice, hamsters, turtles, parakeets, beos and a gazillion others but we never had cats. I like them but never really get on their wavelength. It took me 6 years to get accepted (and adopted) by my neighbour's three cats but I still don't quite understand their thoughts.
Yes, those sound like cats! Don’t worry, this is the way they prefer it, and all is right with the world!
