So, it is everywhere the same.....
But in the Netherlands you have to endure it not only for your own language, but, in my case, for English and German as well!
"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
-Mark Twain
and
"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger."
-Fernand Mery