In the War of Dogs vs. Cats, Clear Winner Emerges

[bijou]

Cats. Dogs. Those can be fighting words in some circles.

Cats are "nasty, stinking creatures," says Mark David of Warrensburg, Mo. And dogs? They're noisy, disruptive and "lick you and themselves," counters Sanford Reikes of Louisville, Ky.

Clearly, there are dog people and there are cat people. But it's not much of a contest: 74 percent of people like dogs a lot, and only 41 percent like cats a lot.

Cats win the dislike vote handily, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll. Fifteen percent of the adults questioned said they disliked cats a lot while the number who said they disliked dogs a lot was just 2 percent. ...

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[vesta111]

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Lifestyle I would say plays into this discussion.

Cats are all the same be it jungle lion to street cat, they think alike, walk alike, only difference is the coat or lack of one in those horrid hairless cats.

Dogs have been fiddled with by man for millions of years, most specialise in that some can herd sheep and some can retrieve, others hunt bear.

It really depends on why the person wants a companion in a dog, are they going to be a farm dog or sit all day in a millionairs apt. in the city. 

This study is bunk, it is like asking people if they would rather raise a boy or girl child.

BTW, much is being said about the glut of Chichiwo-wo's that California is flying country wide to find homes for.    A sad situation here, I have owned 2 in past years and I think I understand the problem from personal experience.

Most of us tend to treat a dog of any breed that weighs perhaps 5 pounds or less like an human infant.   There is no way anyone would want a 40 pound dog to develop into adulthood acting and living like these tiny dogs from hell.

Few people train or think they need to train the small ones except to come to them. [sometimes]

The little ones become neurotic, try to attack all strangers, very unfriendly to others then their pack.

The last little fella we had was brought to big dog training, taught to come, stay, laydown and heel.  We trained him the same as we did our Rottie, he lived a good life, knew his place and enjoyed pleasing us.  If one wants a very small companion then one must find the time and money to have them trained as one would a big dog.    I have seen registered companion dogs as small as 10 pounds in stores, restaurants and even one in a bar .

Cats are great for people that do not have the time to walk something twice a day, get extra insurance in case of a law suite, not worry about neighbors complaining about barking or their mess in their yard.   [ Indoor cats that is.]

With a cat one can do things on the spur of the moment, spend the night away from home, etc.

All depends on the needs of the owner, a cat is ideal for senior citizens and young adults who do not want to be tied down 24/7.    Nursing homes ---the good ones---usually have a resident cat that give much peace to the ill or infirm.   Having a house cat in factory's to keep down rodents is preferable to dangerous poison sprayed 4 times a year.

You know it just occurred to me that for a couple hundred years some country's in Europe became insane and blamed illness and bad crops on CATS.   Millions of these poor critters were tortured  and killed in horrendous ways    No big surprise when rats and their flees caused 3/4 of the world to get plague.    How would history have changed had the cats been left alone and did their job. What would the world be like today had we never had the Black Plague.????

   

[Chris_]

ZOMG!!  Featherdancing lolkittehs!!  I just want to snort the tiny one on the end right up my nose!

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/12/17/funny-pictures-video-feather-dancing/

[njpines]

ZOMG!!  Featherdancing lolkittehs!!  I just want to snort the tiny one on the end right up my nose!

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/12/17/funny-pictures-video-feather-dancing/

Whooo!  Cute overload!     My dog would shut down that fun in about 5 seconds -- she's a bit of an authoritarian that way!

[Chris_]

Whooo!  Cute overload!    My dog would shut down that fun in about 5 seconds -- she's a bit of an authoritarian that way!

My dog would have stolen and eaten the feather before the 2nd head bob but ignored the cats.  The most interesting thing she finds about cats is their poop.

ETA:  The video seriously needs some reggae music in the background!

[Wineslob]

I don't think I've ever seen a cat eat it's own shit..........

[Chris_]

I don't think I've ever seen a cat eat it's own shit..........

Nor do they sniff/lick another animal's butt...My dog however would climb into my cats' butts if she could.   (Reason #153 I Don't Let My Dog Kiss Me.  Ever.)

[vesta111]

Nor do they sniff/lick another animal's butt...My dog however would climb into my cats' butts if she could.   (Reason #153 I Don't Let My Dog Kiss Me.  Ever.)

Big, big dogs were part of my life for years, they were necessary for our protection when Hubby was over seas for as much as a year at a time.   In military towns the civilian bad guys can tell just by base stickers on the autos who is a service wife, they know sooner or later their men will be absent from the home and move in to cause much trouble for a woman alone far from home with small kids to protect.

I had these dogs as pets for the kids and personal protection for the family.  They worked out well, one caught a man coming through a window and gave me enough time to grab the shot gun.   

I would guess there were hundreds of times that I put the dog in the car to go bowling at night or got lost in a new town that just by being there saved me.

  I carried a  German  Shepard with me when I drove to deliver pizza  to the gettos at night, in a few cases I brought them to the door of a place that looked dangerious.   No one ever called the Company to complain. not one word about anything that would cause a runkis.

I needed big dogs back then to protect us and property, to be a deterrent to the bad

The big guys helped me raise my family, they gave the kids strength, thunder storm, the dog was at the side of their bed, they stood guard at night, and kept the bullies from picking on them.

These dogs that were bigger then they were were their heros, long as the dog was there they had no problem moving about the country at a moments notice.

  All those fun days are gone, truth be told I have no idea how we survived them.

Then about 18 years ago I moved to an apartment in a complex where after 2 months of living there under a no dog rule there was one of the most heninus crimes comitted in this area.  This double murder was so bad few could remember anything this bad except for the storys of Indian Attacks 200 years before.

The police were at odds, and going nuts, 3/4 of the tennents ran out and bought guns, they got armed to the teeth.      This was actually a terrorist attack on the comunity, The property management then allowed people to own dogs, better then guns from societys stand point.

There were a few side insidences of people going crazy but we had a form of safety with a dog to warn us.

Some where out there are the people that started all this, they live and work in our comunity,  they are monsters.They may be the people that you see every day, may have gotten an education they are still out there.

As I see it, if my 120 pound dog spends 2 hours a day smiffing butts, licking their ball yet stops someone from coming in the window at night to grab a grandchild,-----Lick on, a few germs are nothing when it comes to family safty.

Guns are no good for protection if they are not attached to your body at all times.   A dog at your side as they wish to be is more effective.     Dogs are gifts from God to mankind to protect us and die for us if need be.    So they lick-----this is nothing when it comes to saving a life.