I am sorry you feel that way. Have you ever read the book Puss in Boots? Cats are among the most courageous of animals, and more intelligent and sophisticated than dogs are.
Cats are OK with me. I’m just joking around
One of our cats -- a "discard" that we saved off the street -- was apparently abused really bad by some @#$%$^ "children" before he was thrown away. He is absolutely terrified of kids. Loves adults, but is just scared $#!+less of kids.
He is also scared of other cats -- probably because he was declawed before he was thrown out to fend for himself. Some people, I swear...
So, we have this little guy, scared of his own shadow, who, one day, when our big dog (Rottie) was jumping up and down trying to lick my wife'd face (or give her a concussion from skull-impact -- he wasn't real coordinated), it looked like he was trying to rip her throat out. (She was sitting on the couch, trying to hold the dog off, but he kept jumping up at her face.)
It was a pretty funny moment, except that to our little scaredey cat, it looked like a "dog attack."
So, what did this little nervous wreck of a guy do? Did he go hide under the couch -- or run out of the room?
Nope.
He grit his jaw, showed his fangs, and hissed at the dog.
Every muscle in his little body was tense.
He then inched his way around my wife's back, climbed up on her knee, and tried to stare down the dog!
When that didn't work, he let out a weak little growl.
When that didn't work, he suddenly -- with the most anguished look on his face -- began rat-tat-tat punching the dog on the nose with his right paw! His right declawed paw!
Now, that got the dog's attention.
The dog stopped his "attack", looked at the cat with this look of utter confusion (the dog liked the cats!), tilted his head, with this "why did you hit me?" look, and turned away from the "attack".
The little cat was a nervous wreck after that, it took him a while to calm down.
The point is, no matter how great his fears were -- and they were about as great as I can imagine -- he went -- unarmed with anything but sheer grit -- to the defense of his human "mama".
If that ain't courage, then I don't know what is.
BTW, he'll only eat dry cat food. Looks at canned food like it's not even edible. Won't even give it a sniff. It's not food to him. He only eats dry food, and his bowl has to be off where no one can see him eat. He doesn't eat all that much -- the vet says he's neurotic. He is much more concerned with being pet and held than being fed. He is extremely loyal.