@curiousartemis sorry if what I wrote offended you. I'm probably thinking that from a dog person's perspective and it's by no means to insult or to say cats are a negative thing.
Maybe "it takes longer for them to warm up to you" is a better phrase? I haven't had cats come up to cuddle with me. Greet me, definitely, but unless I'm busy they have no interest in my company haha. I've had cats most of my life, my first pet was a cat. It's really no fun chasing a cat to try to interact with them, I'm not a fan of that kind of game. But I respect that, they like doing their own thing. I've only had one cat that was a cuddlebug and he was a great friend. I miss that guy...
Maybe I have an extreme bias towards dogs because I work my pup. We work together on detection work so my bond with her is pretty deep. I like the power breeds, GSDs, pit bulls, rotweillers, etc. Like if mabari hounds were real I'd be over the moon! I've put a lot more work into my dog than my cat, that's for sure. I mean...I fed my cat out from my hand, pretty much bend to his every whim. He's bitten me plenty more times than my dog ever will. I don't take the bites as an insult, but sometimes it's so crazy and I'm bleeding pretty bad from it and I resigned to think myself not a cat whisperer by any means.
I mean I think of Cullen as a dog person because if I were to reach out to touch him I don't think he'd clamp down my hand and do that bicycle kick cats like to do LOL