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Permalink Reply by Not very important. on February 5, 2011 at 5:04pm

I am definitely a cat person. My cat, Clementine, is the best roommate I could have ever asked for. She's quiet, clean, relaxed, graceful, and she always seems to know what I'm thinking. I do like dogs as well but sometimes they're too energetic and slobbery.

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Permalink Reply by Bryn on February 5, 2011 at 5:05pm

I'm a dog person. In my experience, dogs are very easygoing, and if not smart, then at least loyal. Also, I am far more allergic to cats than I am to dogs. Of course, I may just be a dog person because of some very bad childhood experiences involving cats. For instance, my grandparents had some very grumpy cats, who would always hide and spring out of nowhere in a yowling, mangy swirl of claws and teeth. I would then walk away with many a scratch, not to mention the hives, asthma attacks, and the other symptoms of allergies that I suffer from around cats.

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Permalink Reply by Roger tholen on February 5, 2011 at 8:44pm

I am a retired dog trainer. I have had, at one time, and one cat. Presently, I have had to put down my last two dogs due to old age complications. At my age 80 I really would not feel ok with getting another dog. ie who is going to take care of him/her if I die in the near future, which is highly probable. So I adopted a cat. I seem to be training it like a dog. It sleeps with me, lays on a chair next to me when on the computer, follows me around all the time if he is not sleeping, comes in the toilet to be petted, like my dogs used to, and in general is a wonderful friend. I thought I would not bond with a cat after all my yrs with dogs, but it has worked out fine. The main reason for a cat is usually they don;t miss a person as much as most dogs do. I guess I have to say I love dogs most of all, but cats come in a close second.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 5, 2011 at 10:46pm

I agree that some cats can be very loving like dogs can. I had a cat named Molly a few years ago. She would get so excited when I would come home. She never left my side. When I was leaving the house one day, she went outside. I wasn't gonna be gone long so I didn't mind letting her stay out for a little while. I never could find her after that. My neighbor had said before that he absolutely hated cats. I think he may have shot her. It is very likely if she walked on his property. I wish I could've known he'd be that way. I can still think of her and makes me wanna cry. She was and still is, by far, my favorite. I miss her with all of my heart.

 

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Permalink Reply by T A A on February 6, 2011 at 2:01am

my cat too. He freely chose indoor/outdoor time at his leisure. I had an apartment on the 2nd floor and always left the window open. I worked at the movie theatre back then and used to come home usually at 23:30, but sometimes at 3:30 am, after bar closure. Every single night, as I turned the corner of my street and called out his name, he would come galloping down the street to greet me. Our home was 5 houses from the corner. I'm a bit of a Ceasar Milan style person, and I raised that putty cat in that spirit. I think that's why my cat offered the best of both worlds.  sigh...

I also hitch-hiked many thousands of miles with him, and let him on a long leash to go to the bathroom :)

I've been too much of a nomad the past 20 years to have any pets. I house-sit a lot tho so I have pet time vicariously through other's pets :)

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Permalink Reply by Mo Trauen on February 6, 2011 at 9:12am

It's amazing to me how it is so acceptable to hate cats.  People openly speak about going out of their way to kill them.  One thing I have noticed is that such people are always religious--at least, in my experience.

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Permalink Reply by T A A on February 6, 2011 at 11:11am

I think many people consider cats less moral !  :P

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Permalink Reply by 3equ3cp1fsw0n on February 6, 2011 at 11:17am

LOL. I used to have a cat so mean that he would try to knock my grandmother's walker out from under her. He hated that walker. He would slap it hard, repeatedly, hissing and spitting at it everytime she got too close to him.

 

OMG, we used to laugh at that, even grama laughed.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 7, 2011 at 10:33pm

That is SO funny! My cat Dax (the one pictured in the bed) just started something new about 3 days ago. He will scratch at the door for me to let him in. When I open the door, he runs! Then he will come back a few mins. later and do the same thing! It is so funny. Now all he needs to do is learn to light a bag of poop on fire and he can do it to our neighbors! Little prankster!

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 6, 2011 at 7:35pm

I've noticed it too. There is a mega church not far from my town called Newspring. The pastor there talks about how cats are from satan and they serve no purpose. He jokes a lot about it but he really does dislike cats. I've had friends that used to drag me to this church when I was in the agnostic category. This pastor seemed to have a ton of groupies and it was disturbing.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Brunt on February 6, 2011 at 10:19pm

Yes it is disturbing

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Permalink Reply by Anachro1 on February 6, 2011 at 1:15am

100%  a dog person!

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