Dogs or cats? Lets get divisive ;)

The cat definitely gets its way with the dogs.

 

So get an electronic burglar alarm system installed instead? They're certainly cheap enough and they don't eat anything, nor ever attract vets bills like a watch cat would?

 

When we lived in a countryside location our cat often brought home 'presents' at the end of her routine all-night patrols, such as small wildlife like voles, shrews and field-mice, and the only thing left after she'd finished with them was their gall bladder. (where's a 'puking' smiley when ya need one!)

 

Lovely story. My daughter is a cat-woman(!), and the two she has at the moment were rescue kittens ('kitties'? lol). They're now 14 years old, which is a ripe old age for a feline from what I hear. She and her lad took in a kitten a few years ago which had been seriously ill-treated, but despite all the TLC they lavished on it they couldn't normalise it, so they had to have it put down.

 

The cat is 14 years old and the pups are just a year. It would make you smile to see how the dogs cow-tow to the cat. They almost squirm to show him respect.

 

My most memorable pets are the ones someone considered throwaways, made me wonder when the dog or cat reached all of its potentials if the person who tossed it would have wanted him or her back. I never understood why someone could have no conscience about tossing out a defenseless puppy or kitten.

 

I don't think it's as much respect as fear of those razor-sharp claws.

 

I have both types of critters. I don't like to call them pets. My Siamese Manx and Tortishell-Calico are real possessive and always want attention. Just as much as the dog. Will even swat him out of the way to lay down next to me or even on me. Thats even if they go and lay on the other side of me or on the back of the couch.

They pretty much have the dog under control. Until they go and try to take his food out of his bowls. The cats have learned not to do that. Same goes for his bones or treats.

 

My boss's cat brings home live presents. One time he found a fully grown grouse (do you know how BIG a grouse is?!) roosting on a shelf in his bedroom...

The cat apparently enjoys chaos... will walk in to where the dogs are laying in the living room and drop a very much alive mouse on the floor equidistant from all four dogs... and just watch them all try to get it. two of them are very large. furniture sometimes gets broken...

 

Oh no, that's way to plebeian. One is not a true feline unless they can get their humans to open a door for them with a simple look.

Even if the door on the other side of the room is already open.

Dogs have masters. Cats have staff.

 

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Dogs are like little children. They are fun to play with but at the end of the day it's nice to be able to just hand them back to their owners and let them deal with the pooping.

Our neighbor is a huge dog fan and we jest each other about dogs versus cats all the time. Whenever I see her go out and start cleaning up the yard with her pooper scooper I immediately run down and clean out whatever happens to be in the litter box and then run up and brag about how it only took me less than a minute while she is walking around still picking up ****. Once in a while I get lucky and she accidently steps on one.

I do have fun playing with them though especially the new one as one of her old ones died recently. This is another downside of dogs unfortunately. I hate small dogs, I mean I absolutely loathe small dogs. Big dogs are so much better in every way except for the fact that they don't live nearly as long as cats and not as long as small dogs. In retrospect I wish I had gotten a tortoise or a parrot because both of them can easily outlive a human and I am not looking forward to the day my cat passes away. :/

 

I hate small dogs too. I equate them to cats. As the great Ron Swanson says, "anything under 30 pounds is a cat, and cats are pointless". I love labs or german shepherds

 

A dog will love anyone.

A cat's love has to be earned.

I've had both most of my life. I love all animals; especially two-legged dears.

 

LOL. Well it took some training, but my cat, Pappy (for Pappy Boyington) loves it. I live in a rural area and he lots to hunt. We have coyotes, so he's pretty good about staying close to the fence if he needs to hop over it and come back in.

 

Cats for me. I'm not entirely opposed to having a dog, but then that would create problems with crowding and feeding and litter boxes..

 

They're often the brain-dead trailer trash types who buy a puppy because of it being cute, then when that cuteness disappears with maturity the cretins 'throw it away'.

 

Some aren't the trailer trash types, some appear to be decent types till you see how they treat animals. I have no use for someone who treats animals badly. Animals are at people's mercy and they deserve to be treated kindly. Don't be nice to me if you kick my dog.

 

Around 1985 a neighbor got a kitten that became my Retriever's best friend. That cat was always around my dog and the dog enjoyed it's company. I moved a few years later and the cats owner and another former neighbor got my dog it's own kitten for Christmas that year so the dog would have another friend. Man, was I surprised. Ever since then it's been dogs & cats. Sometimes it's another cat for a dog, other times I got the cat a dog.

 

A dog we owned once couldn't stand to hear the kitten mewing; he would sit with the kitten to keep it quiet. They loved each other if the kitten cried the dog was there to comfort it. People that don't take the time to notice animals interacting with other animals are missing a beautiful part of life.

 

Why are you so hateful and bitter? My experience is living in the country and such puppies are bought by young apartment dwellers who find out a full grown Labrador needs more attention than they are willing to give. If it was up to me, I'd require both a license to breed and a license to own pets just to curb the problem.

 

I'm not particularly fond of small, yippy overgrown dust collectors, but they are critters too, so I tolerate them for the short time I am around them.

However, I definitely would not call them a cat. They don't even come close. Once you've earned a cat's trust, you have a friend for life. Anything given too easily (generally, dogs trust) doesn't have the same value.

 

Cats don't do anything. They're a useless animal like a mouse or gerbil. This of course, is just my opinion. I don't hate cats, I just see no use for them. Especially cats that go to the bathroom inside of the house (litter box). If an animal isn't smart enough to be let outside, use the bathroom, and then run back, they are useless.

 

Cats don't do anything? Well, then you've been hanging with the wrong cats.

They greet me when I roll down the driveway at night, entertain me while they chase their tails, each other's tails, stalk leaves and bugs, they bring me presents (see previous post), wake me up with a purr, warm my feet on a cold winter's night, watch TV, especially the Nature Channel, and help me remove the ornaments from my Christmas tree.

They can also reduce the mouse/vole/shrew population, though gerbils are more tasty. The occasional lizard, snake, rabbit. In general, anything under the size of a Highland cow is subject to herd reduction.

 

Well that's good. I have nothing against cats really. We had an outdoor cat. I never really ever played with it as it kind of just did her own thing for 15 years. I do enjoy the youtube videos of cats drunk on catnip