Why is that the villian always has to be a cat

Now, living in a stray dog infested neighborhood, I hear horror stories about people being torn apart by dogs all the time. If a see a stray dog on the street, I do everything to make sure it stays at least 50 feet from me. But I can always be comfortable with stray cats, too bad there ain't too much of them anymore, the dogs are probably killing them off.

Because of this, the whole 'dogs are human's best friends and cat's are evil conspirators' charade never made sense to me.

YES... I, TOO, WONDER WHY CATS ALWAYS HAVE TO BE E-VIL!? (My cat has trapped me in my basement, and is forcing me to write this! Send help! ;0)

Perhaps cats are the only ones smart enough to come up with an evil plan.

Behind you!

Considering the adage is that guys are dogs and chicks are cats, it's obvious.

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It's interesting that a blockbuster film would go out of the way to alienate a huge chunk of its potential audience (what with cats being the most popular pet in America). The trailers for the original created the impression that it was going to be a film set on a level playing field, with the audience more or less explicitly asked "which side will you be on?" So it's not that the finished film was anti-cat but that it was sold under false pretences.

"They ate Mummy! They burned Mummy and killed her and ate her!"

Maybe it has something to do with the idea that a dog is man's best friend and cats have been associated with witches?

I agree that cats are always depicted as the baddies in films while dogs are always good and heroic.

Dogs are generally thought of to be more gregarious (pack animals) than cats. Cats are more individualistic, so it seems more plausible (not that the premise is very plausible in the first place) for a cat to go rogue. If you remember, the villain from the first movie was a rogue cat also. It's been played up as a war between cats and dogs, but it seems to me to be more of a fragile truce.

If they went for a villain dog, then it would need to be a pack of dogs. I'd like to see that, but I'm afraid they would only play to...for lack of better terms...stereotypes. A chihuahua with a spanish accent, a german shepherd with a german accent, etc.

Villains often have certain accents because of the connotations associated with them. Russians are evil and powerful, germans are evil scientists, english are classy/refined but can be good or evil, canadians are polite, and mexicans are stoners. Its sad, but this seems to be the only way american audiences can identify who is good and who is bad.

I would say it's due to Blofeld.