In-laws had the same thing going on for years. The carpet, furniture, the floor vents (yes, it got aerosolized 🤢)... The dumb cat even peed in my shoes once or twice while I visited. It actually seemed vindictive, like whenever a change she didn't like happened, she'd go and pee on something we cared about.
I already didn't really like cats, but between that one and the one we've been watching now for awhile... Now I really don't like them.
I thought that too. It all started when we went on vacation for a week and had my cousin house sit and watch our cats and dog. Ever since then whenever we leave or he leaves, there's a good chance she'll do it.
It must be a neuro-/psycho-something. Something got broke, and we can't really fix it. It's like the dog that gets too spooked by lightning or fireworks and starts becoming mean, killing chickens instead of chasing off foxes, etc. Just life and the unfortunate things that sometimes happen.
At least for the most part they don't make a racket all night long every time a rat or cat is walking around.
If you don't like cat's that's because you only ever saw ones that were being abused or poorly kept by their owners. No different with other pets, either, birds and rodents in small cages, it's just wrong.
I was staying at an airbnb where the owner of the dogs there claimed to love them. She had rottweiler <3 fridge magnet. But she never took her two rotties for a walk, ever, hardly ever let them out to run around in the horse yard where they were mostly locked inside with the horse, and on top, another 3 or 4 dogs that never saw sunlight locked in another space near the front gate of the property.
No surprise you didn't like the cats if they had that kind of keepers. Humans react the same way to imprisonment too.
