Word: ailurophobia
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...Ailurophobia is breaking out all over the place...
...feeding cost up to $1.8 billion a year, which is more than the defense budget of Brazil. Yet, deep in the American psyche, there is evidently a bristling resentment of Felis domestica. This has erupted in a litter of books that celebrate a new and fast-growing cult of ailurophobia (hatred or fear of cats...
...April and has headed the trade paperback bestseller list for twelve straight weeks. It is a collection of mordant and often macabre cartoons by English Artist Simon Bond, who is violently allergic to living cats but has no end of ingenious notions for recycling cadavers. The Charles Addams of ailurophobia, he sees deceased tabbies as admirable substitutes for more conventional objects ranging from anchors to wine holders (not to mention cat's cradles and cat-o'-ninetails). Bond's graphic suggestions have triggered a barrage of ailurophiliac mail charging the cartoonist and publisher with everything from obscenity...
...such terms as ailurophobia (fear of cats) and erythrophobia (fear of blushing) may be added brownophobia (fear of other Governors) or worse, delanophobia (fear of fear itself). Visitors are bound to watch their language as well. Few will mention penal reform...
...ailurophobia cats...