A lot of dog behaviours are also to sate their need for murder.Dogs have chew toys, but 99% of cat toys are to sate their need to murder, like, it's not fun if they don't think they're taking a life.
Both dogs and cats are obligate carnivores. They both have a prey drive, they just express it differently because they evolved to hunt in different ways. Dogs are endurance predators, not ambush predators, so they like to run around and chase things. That's their equivalent of the stalking and pouncing cats do. In terms of a hungry giant cat versus a hungry giant dog, the main difference is that the cat will kill you before eating you and the dog won't.
Most of the behavioural differences between cats and dogs stem from the fact that wolves are apex predators, while the African wildcats who are the ancestors of our domestic cats are predated by other animals. This actually isn't true of big cats, like tigers, so they don't have the same threat response. Regardless, a lot of "violent" cat behaviour is caused by feeling threatened, or feeling that their territory is threatened. The canine dominance hierarchy normally ensures dogs aren't violent to people or other dogs who they know, but when dogs do turn violent it's a lot more serious and can easily result in serious injury or even death. That's why violent dogs have to be euthanized, while violent cats are tolerated because they're mostly harmless.
Cats can be loving and affectionate, and they can develop close bonds with their owners, but unlike dogs which need to be touched and handled all the time, they don't always show it in ways that are easy for a human to interpret. If a cat is scent marking you by rubbing its face on you or booping its head against you, it likes you. It's marking you as a safe part of its environment. Domestic cats, like dogs, are neotenic and bond to their owners the way kittens would to their mother. Behaviours like meowing and solicitation purrs aren't natural to adult cats at all, they're juvenile behaviours which domestic cats retain to communicate with their human 'parents', and they only use them to communicate with humans.
In short, domestic cats are complicated little animals. They all have their own quirks and personalities, but they're perfectly capable of the same range of behaviour as dogs. I don't think it's weird that some people don't like cats, but I do think it's weird how some people seem to really dislike them. I always wonder what causes it.
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