Kittens

[Red Frog]

I'm allergic too. It wears off after a few weeks/months. Totally worth it.

Ah, hadn't tried that. I'm allergic too so I've only been getting the downside. You realise you've quietly been proving what Oxford University has just published with a very extensive and world-shattering peanut allergy research programme?

[pauld]

Ah, hadn't tried that. I'm allergic too so I've only been getting the downside. You realise you've quietly been proving what Oxford University has just published with a very extensive and world-shattering peanut allergy research programme?

Not the same mechanism, unless jayo's been eating them. Which might explain why he gets through so many ....

... also allergic to cats (but always had dogs) until I moved in with the missus and between us we had two cats and two dogs. Got used to the cats, we still have one, but the dogs are sadly now gone and now I find I have a mild allergic reaction to dog hair. There's a lot to be said for developing a tolerance for things.

[Flashheart]

My allergic reactions can be so severe that I am left more or less incapacitated for a day or two. I would have to make up reasons to miss work because nobody would accept my allergies would be that bad and I couldn't call until several hours later because it took that long before I could compose myself and hold a conversation.

They aren't quite as severe now but they still leave me feeling very uncomfortable and not long ago I had to cancel a night when my daughter came home after playing with a neighbour's cat. The worst of the attacks can also affect my immune system leaving me vulnerable to illness.

I don't even have to have a cat on my lap, I don't have to touch one. I could be in a house that has cats and even if the cats are out then I could suffer and it won't just go away after an hour or two.

I lived with my Nan for a while and she kept cats. It's true that I do build up an immunity to individuals to a degree but for me the effects never go away. I can (but not always) get used to an individual cat enough that I can be where that cat has been with suffering but having one sat on my lap is out of the question. From time to time one might make it into my bedroom (they were otherwise banned) and sleep on my bed without me realising, I would wake up in a complete mess.

I'll just settle for a dog, I'm not allergic to them. And dogs are better anyway.

[jayohaitchenn]

I'm not that bad but I get flu like symptoms. Cough and runny nose and my eyes stream like anything. Kind of like hayfever.

[Honkytonk]

I don't have any allergies. Because I'm awesome. I pity those that do. Poor, benighted bastards.

[4D]

One of my cats constantly follows me about,  gets up by the sink when I wash up, stands up on his back legs when I open a tin of tuna. He also gets on top of the spare fridge freezer in the garage and swipes an unexpecting me on top of the head when I'm getting a beer out. He always sits right where I'm trying to walk to, he does my head in

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

My mrs has 2 cats which she brought with her when she moved in with me. I dont mind them tbh except when they wake me up at 5 in the morning. They are well trained though as they over ever piss or shit in the neighbours gardens.

[fatbasher]

Taste like chicken or rabbit apparently....

[yeo]

I like Cardigans