Are you a "cat person" or a "dog person"?

I have two kids allergic to cats though. :(

So I like dogs too, just not as much as my funny feline friends.:)

:)

We had a dog for awhile when I was a kid, but I have to confess I never loved it nearly as much as I loved our kitties.

I couldn't have them for most of my life due to allergies but now I have had dogs for 6 years and it changed my life! Cats are fun and cute and cool and all but dogs are the very embodiment of total unconditional love. They can learn things, perform tasks and tricks. They guard you and live for you. My pug is across the room right now snoring loudly and it is the best sound in the world to me.

I often nearly have accidents because I am looking at other people's dogs while I am driving. Big little, it doesn't matter the breed, if you are a dog, you are my friend. Doggies rule! :D

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070623/ap_on_fe_st/odd_black_lab_driving

Black lab drives owner's car into river Fri Jun 22, 11:15 PM ET



SAGLE, Idaho - Bad dog. Charlie the black lab drove his owner's car into the Pend Oreille River. As Mark Ewing walked home Wednesday evening after returning from picking up a pizza, Charlie jumped into the car through an open window, and apparently knocked the vehicle into gear.


"He somehow got the car into neutral," Ewing said. "My car just went boom, down an incline and into the drink."

Ewing could only watch as his Chevy Impala sank into the river. No dummy, Charlie jumped out of the window as the car went downhill.

"There's nothing weirder than looking at your car cruising down your driveway when you're not in it and seeing your dog jump out and then watching your car go splash," Ewing said.

Actually, things got a little weirder when the tow truck driver showed up.

Before the driver dove into the water to hook the car up to his truck, he asked Ewing to hold his dentures.

"My car's in the drink, I've got dentures in my hand and this guy Keith ... goes swimming," Ewing noted.

I can't imagine life without both.

As a little girl, I had both, so I could never choose one over the other. I like them both for different reasons!

Cats for their independent, quirky personalities, and dogs for their goofiness and complete and utter adoration of their humans.

I didn't use to like cats at all though, but they've grown on me! I love them both

but I like dogs too, just never had one.

Love 'em all.

:D

Down from a seven-cat person.

:) I've had all kinds of pets in my life, starting at birth, and I know without a shadow of a doubt that I'm a dog person. Since the age of 15, all of my pets have been dogs, and I'll always have dogs. :D

Dogs love you all the time and come when called.

:rofl: I've had more than one cat flip me off because I called them to come to me. :P Dogs never do that.

troubled by how subservient they act. Makes me feel like a slave owner. I especially dislike dogs who are trained within an inch of their lives. Sit, roll over, fetch, don't bark, don't do anything unless I order you to. Creeps me out. Not the dog's fault, obviously.

Three cats, one Golden, two parakeets, and an aquarium full of fish.

Everything else is second best.

When I go to a dog owner's house, I pet their critters and usually like them (although I don't like dogs' greasy fur feel and I don't like dog breath blown in my face :) , but when I come home I am soooooo thankful I have kitties.

Kitties are so soft and cuddly and they purr and are funny and beautiful ... :loveya:

I like them both. I like dogs for their unconditional love, and I like cats for precisely the opposite reason: it amuses me to no end how self-centered they are. Sadly, I own neither a dog NOR a cat currently; I live in an apartment and don't have room enough for a dog*, and just can't stand dealing with a litter box.

*I could get one of those annoying little yipping dogs, but I've always maintained that if a dog can't catch a frisbee, it's useless.

That's what got me thinking about the question.

Why should a person have to be either a "cat person" or a "dog person" ?

I generally avoid labels, like these, if/when I can.

These are two terms I detest. I guess because people always assume I am a "cat person".

I've bonded more easily to dogs in the past, but I've always had cats too.

I'd have to go with, er, cats.

The score is currently 4-4 in our household.

I think of dogs as more dependent and cats as more independent in terms of their emotional needs, but having had both cats and dogs, they both need you in different ways (besides food) and neither is all that independent.

But I do like dogs and almost adopted one years ago. I live in an apartment now, though, so I don't have either. :(

:loveya: How could anyone say no to these guys?

i've always had cats and would be lost without them. i like dogs well enough, i just don't have a whole lot of experience with them. however, when i have more room and time, i would like to get a dog.

I'd like to maybe have some other things like donkeys and goats one day as well. :hi:

I like their independence and ability to look after themselves...but cats will give you that unconditional love too. They just express it differently than a dog does.
I think also...(and I very easily could be wrong) that a cat's personality is less dependant upon the breed than a dog's is.

Mine are all DHS...and they do come when they are called...about 80% of the time.

Cats need to find another planet. I've never detected a single useful thing they do on this one.

There are many things..

My cats scare away rodents, for one. All our neighbors have field mice problems (from nearby construction) but we don't. Also, both of my cats meet me at the door when I come home. Now, I agree, that is not normal cat behavior.

I even had one cat, once, I trained to sit on my back and give me back massages! I kid you not! He was declawed...I still miss that cat!

You see, I met the cat trainer for Morris the Cat when I was only 10 years old. So, I've been "training cats," since an early age. Yes, contrary to popular belief, cats can be trained! Of course, being as independent as they are, they'll probably never be as subservient as dogs. ;-)

There are many more useful things cats do...but I don't have time to write much at the moment!

:hi:

Their pleasure gives you pleasure.

And cats are much less likely to maul or kill people. Hardly ever, in fact.

I find cats kind of annoying, actually.

Cats are cool. They just don't give a fuck.

"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies."
-- Gene Hill


"In dog years, I'm dead" -- Unknown


"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the
car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at
nothing right in your ear." -- Dave Barry


"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his
water bowl." -- Penny Ward Moser


"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three
times before lying down." -- Robert Benchley


"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think
that is how dogs spend their lives." -- Sue Murphy


"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless
absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." --
Fran Lebowitz


"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back
from a grocery store with the most amazing haul: chicken, pork, half
cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!" --
Anne Tyler


"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious
cult." -- Rita Rudner


"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a
can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money." -- Joe Weinstein


"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant." -- Unknown


"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that most dogs I have
known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." -- James Thurber


"You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person
with pets." -- Nora Ephron


"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you
are wonderful." -- Ann Landers


"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." -- Robert A. Heinlein


"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone
should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore
him." -- Dereke Bruce


"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your
face." -- Ben Williams


"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." --
Edward Abbey


"Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make
it look like the dog did it." -- Unknown


"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves
himself." -- Josh Billings


"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and
your dog would go in." -- Mark Twain


"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where
they went." -- Unknown


"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a woman."
-- Mark Twain


"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We
can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives." --
Rita Rudner


"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his
life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to
the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such
devotion." -- Unknown

But since we are not allowed to have dogs in this condo, our two feline ladies keep us quite happy.

Two labradors and 1 momma barn cat and regular infusions of kittens. All live together in peace and harmony in our rural utopia. In general the cats order the labs around.

However, I'm a dog person, but, call me a snob, only labs please.

Well, in my imaginary world where I take care of a pet.

A cat will bury his/her mess...a dog leaves his/her mess there for someone else to clean up.
:hide:

Had plenty of outside cats growing up. I think cats are cooler in their actions, but have to say that I'm a dog person.

:hi:

:eyes:

That's it! It's over...

but I needs me a dog to warm my bed for me.. and bark.. and bark.. hmm. Oh! and shake my hand! and.. bark...

Perhaps I can be swayed, this dang barking is getting nervewracking...



btw: flirt - flirt - flirt :loveya:

I loooove them!

Cute picture! :)

... Oregon annual amateur photo contest....or something like that.. :)

:)

I just have a connection with most critters.

But- I've had cats since I was 6 yrs. old- 50
years ago.

Cats are a part of my life.
They can be a nuisance at times, but I love
them to pieces.

Like Jay Leno once said,

" Folks, your cat understands you perfectly."
" He's just ignoring you!"- LOL- you can tell
Leno has cats. ;-)

I've never had a dog, but I do like them.

so that's why you and i relate

i'm a critter :D

:hi:

By Jove, I think you've got it!

:rofl: :pals:

as you might be able to guess. :-)

:P

a cat right now but plan to get a dog when we move to a place with a yard. I just love animals.

Dogs scared the bejesus out of me, at least until I got bigger.

Even still, I'm more comfortable around cats.

when I was about 6 or 7 I remember. It was the mascot of a fraternity and I went to a school that was on the campus of the University there as it was a place that the education department of the university ran. A "laboratory school", LOL.

At any rate that dog would knock me down, tear at my coat, scared me to death.

I like both cats and dogs now, and the dogs I grew up with as pets were not anything near the size of a St. Bernard. I might say that I would not want to have one as a pet.

Cats are a little better about house training and are affectionate.

Dogs are usually loyal to almost a fault, which can make them good with kids.

But some dogs are just, well, stupid. Have one of those right now. :grr:

I have two dogs and two cats :)

I have to admit, I love my bulldog more than anything on this planet.