What do you like better dogs or cats?

[shunyadragon]

Paws down it is dogs. More empathy than cats. Cats generally could care less.

 

[ChristineM]

 

[pearl]

Its a tough call for me, I love them both and grew up with both. But we now have a dog who hates cats so can't have one now.

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

As a companion, dog.
As the object of admiration, cat.

 

[Yazata]

Dogs, by a mile

I can read a dog's emotions which I sense are very similar to my own, I have some sense of what they are thinking and what motivates them. And I also sense that my dog can read me in much the same way. We have lots of non-verbal communication going. In a word, I guess that dogs are more like human beings in many of the ways that matter to me.

Cats are a closed book to me. They are there in the room but I have no idea what they are thinking or why they behave as they do. It's almost as if I'm sharing the room with a space alien.

 

[Meow Mix]

For me it's dogs.

I love nearly all animals, but (and I’m sure this will be shocking)... cats.

 

[Heyo]

Cats are a closed book to me. They are there in the room but I have no idea what they are thinking

With cats its probably how they are going to kill you.

 

[JustGeorge]

Don't mind either, so tend to treat them much the same, even if a dog (Chow) took an undeserved (and unexpected) bite out of my hand as a six-year-old - never owned either although we did have a cat when I was very small:

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Husband had a similar experience with a chow. Enjoys dogs otherwise, but no chows. Honestly, I don't know why everyone focuses on Pits, because I hear so many horror stories from chows.

Paws down it is dogs. More empathy than cats. Cats generally could care less.

That's not true. I had a (male) cat go into labor with me last time around... I'd have a contraction, and he'd roll and howl on the floor. He ran about, wanting someone to take care of the problem. We've also had female cats attend to the babies, and one overly rambunctious cat who defended my son's soup while he went to the bathroom.

 

[Heyo]

That's not true. I had a (male) cat go into labor with me last time around... I'd have a contraction, and he'd roll and howl on the floor. He ran about, wanting someone to take care of the problem. We've also had female cats attend to the babies, and one overly rambunctious cat who defended my son's soup while he went to the bathroom.

Did you know that that is a very recent development? Cats in the wild are loners (except for lions). And so it was a sensation when social behaviour was first described among the street cats of Rome in the 1960s.

 

[Viker]

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Love both of their journal entries. Bout as authentic as it gets.

 

[Viker]

Be warned! This footage is of the true nature of the feline beast or better known universally as a flerken.

 

[Stevicus]

This was an old favorite:

 

[Stevicus]

Felis Catus
is your taxonomic nomenclature
An endothermic quadruped
carniverous by nature
Your visual, olfactory,
and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills
and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued
by your sub-vocal oscillations
A singular development
of cat communications
That obviates your
basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur
to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential
for your acrobatic talents
You would not be so agile
if you lacked its counterbalance
And when not being utilized
to aid in locomotion
It often serves to illustrate
the state of your emotion
Oh Spot,
e complex levels of behavior you display
Denote a fairly well developed cognitive array
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Husband had a similar experience with a chow. Enjoys dogs otherwise, but no chows. Hones

I put the naughty Chow down to just having a bad day (waiting for its master outside a shop), was short-sighted, mistook my hand for a food offering, or because they are temperamentally that way, so not a slight on all dogs. Did make me a bit more careful around dogs for a while no doubt.