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Dogs or Cats?

Which would you rather have as a pet, a dog or a cat?

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SNOWFLAKE

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You can NOT pick both. That would take away all the fun and the anticipated heated debates about...................

Which you would rather have as a pet, Dogs or Cats.

Give your reasons.
 
SNOWFLAKE said:
You can NOT pick both. That would take away all the fun and the anticipated heated debates about...................

Which you would rather have as a pet, Dogs or Cats.

Give your reasons.
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I'm only prejudiced against pit bulls.
 
SNOWFLAKE said:
Dogs have owners, cats have slaves.
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Dogs have gods to whom they are so committed they would not hesitate to give their life for them.

Cats have people who disappoint them.

Why would anyone keep a pet that cannot be trained?

I've never seen a cat joyfully leap out of a helicopter at 50 feet to save a drowning man or pull a sled across the arctic
 
SNOWFLAKE said:
You can NOT pick both. That would take away all the fun and the anticipated heated debates about...................

Which you would rather have as a pet, Dogs or Cats.

Give your reasons.
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Guess.
 
I love dogs, and I love cats. At times I have had both, in addition to many other species. But if I had to pick between a dog or a cat, dog wins every time.

That doesn't mean every dog beats every cat. There's a ton of dogs I'd rather have a cat than. But given my choice of breeding, dog all day.
 
Fearandloathing said:
I've never seen a cat joyfully leap out of a helicopter at 50 feet to save a drowning man or pull a sled across the arctic
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I guess that makes them smarter then.

And btw, this belief that cats aren't committed to their owners, if you have a way of downloading a rare and hard to find movie, you really aught to check this one out:

A Street Cat Named Bob (2016) ⭐ 7.3 | Biography, Drama, Family

1h 43m | Not Rated
www.imdb.com

OH hell, even the trailer if you watch it puts a tear in my eye.
 
Currently have a small petting zoo over here

Currently have 3 dogs, 1 cat and 4 foster/rescue kittens (that will be adopted out once they are spayed/neutered)

They are definitely very different but I love them all.


(Additionally 1 hermit crab and 1 parakeet)

I joke to my husband he’s going to come home and find mini goats, mini cows and chickens. He responds “I wouldn’t be in the least surprised”
 


I saw it some time ago.

I would never say cat's are not smart.

But to me fish make better pets. In my aquarium there is a Khuli Loach I have had for over five years! I NEVER stops swimming. There is absolutely NO relationship, the Loach has no idea I even exist. My kind of pet.

I would love to have an ant farm
 


When I as four I stayed with a family in London, Ontario where I found a baby snapping turtle. I kept it for a pet.

I did not know baby snapping turtles grow very fast. I went away and left my aunt to feed the turtle every few days. After some weeks she arrived and found the turtle had escaped its pen and was on the floor devouring something with fur. It was about five times its baby size.

She ran screaming the house, the police came. The turtle was captured and destroyed.

I had to spend three years begging to be allowed to have an aquarium with the proviso that there would NEVER be any snapping turtles.

So some years later I added some silver discus fish to my aquarium and told everyone they were piranha.
 
SNOWFLAKE said:
You can NOT pick both. That would take away all the fun and the anticipated heated debates about...................

Which you would rather have as a pet, Dogs or Cats.

Give your reasons.
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Cats. I've always lived with a(t least one) cat, save for one week between #1 and #2, the couple years I don't consider myself to have been living at home during college, and the three years I lived in an apartment that didn't alow pets.
 
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Dogs, hands down. We always had dogs when I was growing up. The earliest one was called Dallas. He passed away before I was nine or ten. The next one was Grinan; he took us the kids through our teens. Me and him had the strongest bond. I cannot come up with any living thing- human or otherwise- as devoted and non judgemental towards me as that dog. Its decades, but I still miss him
 
poppopfox said:
I have a service dog, cats can't do that kind of work.
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I am convinced the only reason the Homo sapiens man domesticated the cat and took him in was for his invaluable service as rodent suppressor
 

I would love a couple of pygmy goats, and a couple of miniature pigs, miniature donkeys.....
 
Cats.

I don't want to get up at 5am to walk a ****ing dog. I don't want a 30-100lb blob in my bed. I don't want the constant farting that is pure poison (until you find the right diet). I don't want blind loyalty.

Cats are intelligent. They're extremely loving, provided you treat them properly; provided you don't expect immediate unearned dog-like worship. Cats seem to like me too. My parents adopted a stray that had been previously abused. Before the end - run over by a car, came back into the basement to die (we had a cat window) - I was the only one in the family who could pick him up, nevermind who could pet him more than a couple times without bleeding.

And if a cat is treated with respect and love, it will be as much or more loyal than a dog. You can find any number of videos of a cat jumping directly onto the face of some animal 5-10x it's size - someone's unrestrained dog. Even cats going at black bears, with the bears running way. It reminds me of the way that the book Return of the King describes Sam's hopeless stand against Shelob. I believe today's youth would say "cats stand on business." (And don't worry, I know a loved dog will do the same for its master. It's just... given the size differential, there is a sheer balls differential)

Then again, if you expect instant loyalty, you'll probably walk up and start petting the cat wherever you please. That'll piss it off so it'll scratch or bite. And then you'll decide it's an asshole. etc etc etc.



Now, other peoples' dogs are great, if they're well behaved. I just refuse to deal with owning one.
 
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