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Cats or Dogs, if only on species could survive?

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Alicewond · 05/04/2019 01:49

Which would you prefer? Are you a dog or cat person?

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agnurse · 05/04/2019 16:54

origamiunicorn

Depends on the cat. When our Biggie sees Daddy he just about wets himself with excitement.

Then again we suspect Biggie thinks he's a dog Grin

origamiunicorn · 05/04/2019 16:58

*@agnurse
Depends on the cat. When our Biggie sees Daddy he just about wets himself with excitement.

Then again we suspect Biggie thinks he's a dog*

Have you heard of Bailey, no ordinary cat? He's on Instagram and I think he thinks he's a dog too. He's just wonderful. I say is, unfortunately he died recently, but his owner still shares videos and pics and they do warm my heart.

origamiunicorn · 05/04/2019 16:59

@buccanarab awww what a sweetheart 😍

Fedupflo · 05/04/2019 17:01

Dogs though there are a few cats who've left their pawprints on my heart.

Thirtyrock39 · 05/04/2019 17:10

I like lots of dogs but I love allcats and have never met a cat I didn't like whereas I have met plenty of dogs I have found smelly or scary

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cricketmum84 · 05/04/2019 18:08

@origamiunicorn aww I loved Bailey so much. Genuinely cried when she had him put to sleep.

MitziK · 05/04/2019 18:20

Well, TwatCat comes to tell me my alarm has gone off every morning and on weekends that it's apparently failed to go off.

TwatCat deals with rodents before they become an exponential problem.

TwatCat ensures that no entire tom pisses on my doorstep nor craps in my vegetable garden.

TwatCat protects the vegetable garden from mice, pigeons and squirrels.

TwatCat ensures that my feet are never cold when I'm curled up on the settee.

TwatCat keeps a lid on the Carpet Moth situation.

TwatCat ensures that no dropped toilet roll is allowed to roll out of reach even if it is returned slightly shredded

TwatCat informs me if DP is coming round the corner of the road.

TwatCat informs DP that he's been gone for a whole fifteen minutes and was missed/needs to know about the visiting squirrel/bird/cat that TwatCat has bravely dealt with on his behalf.

TwatCat whinged when DP left the hob on until he followed him into the kitchen to see the pan was about to burst into flames.

TwatCat provided a handy babysitting service for small children. He also notified us when said small children were sleeping and kept said small children occupied in their beds until it was past 7am on a Sunday morning. And he helped with reading practice, along with homework spellings and writing later. He also modelled for many, many drawings even if they usually looked like a crime scene outline

TwatCat greets me every evening after work and regales me with tales of how terrible the day has been without me/that he's been picked on by the big, evil vacuum cleaner.

TwatCat shits in a box that can be conveniently cleaned and disposed of hygienically, rather than having to follow him around with a roll of plastic bags. He also pisses in there, rather than every lamppost, tree, telegraph pole, road sign and corner of a building.

TwatCat ensures that the DP remembers to eat.

TwatCat bravely offers to taste test all meat and fish products on our behalf prior to cooking lest they should be poisonous. If TwatCat won't eat it, it's definitely gone off.

TwatCat carefully keeps your seat warm for you by slipping into the spot before your backside is more than six inches above the seat cushion and will perform a similar service for the middle of your bed and pillow in winter, kindly volunteering to stay there all night under the duvet to keep you just as warm as he is on one side.

TwatCat attempts to bring in things to show us that there is a potential pest control issue under the shed.

TwatCat will remind you that it is time for bed by sitting in front of you and pulling an absolutely pathetically exhausted looking face until you give in.

TwatCat provides assistance with insomnia and anxiety by forcibly placing himself against the person concerned and purring at them to make them calm down and go to sleep.

TwatCat, whilst he does not strictly approve of flibbertygibbetry and non TwatCat related shenanigans, is more than capable of welcoming another person into the house and explaining very carefully exactly where the TwatCat Requisites are located.

And, in extremis, TwatCat will step in at the last moment to help with a Nativity play.

(in reality, I couldn't choose. I've always answered when people ask 'Are you a Cat Person or a Dog Person?' with 'I'm an Animal Person'. But I think cats would probably survive longer than dogs because they can cope going feral/wild far better than dogs - and I'd rather stumble upon a pack of feral cats than dogs in The Apocalypse any day)

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Mordred · 05/04/2019 20:22

@origamiunicorn

"You'd never see a cat excited its owner has just come home from the forces"

Oh really?

ForalltheSaints · 05/04/2019 20:26

I am a cat lover. However, guide dogs are so valuable to blind or partially sighted people that I could never deny them.

Contraceptionismyfriend · 05/04/2019 20:28

My DH works nights so will sleep till afternoon.
When my car hears him get out of bed he will jump up from wherever he is (I've even seen him do it from fast asleep) run to the bottom of the stairs and then do a happy anticipation dance thing until my husband comes downstairs. When DH gets down he stalks him rubbing against him and purring until DH settles and the cat goes back to his nap.

Mordred · 05/04/2019 20:29

Also, cats do miss their owners.

I remember Willow, one of our cats, miaowing at us like crazy when we walked into the house after a 2 week holiday. We heard a 'thud' upstairs as she jumped down from the bed, then it was constant vocalisation, almost like she was telling us off for being away and having the neighbours care for her, then she just wanted cuddles all the time.

SassyCassie · 05/04/2019 20:35

Personally, I like birds. They're pretty darn diggity cool !

Mordred · 05/04/2019 20:37

And to answer the original question: cats.

I don't mind dogs, but would never cope with sharing a house with one. Too in-your-face and constant attention seeking as well as being stenchy. Bleh.

Ithinkmycatisevil · 05/04/2019 20:50

Cats! Always cats!

I actually have both, but I much prefer my cat! I do love the dogs, but they are at times very needy, smelly and annoying. Where as the cat is just always amazing and hilarious.

Sadiesnakes · 05/04/2019 22:18

My little kitty,

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FloofyDoof · 05/04/2019 22:31

Cats. Making my little furry dumbass gallop around the sitting room after the red dot from his laser pointer is my favourite thing to do. My feet would be really cold right now if I didn't have my boy, and he is a sweet, and very cute (not so) little floof.

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Dieu · 05/04/2019 22:33

Dogs. Cats are for those who can't be bothered owning a dog. Same with rabbits, etc. Anything else is a second best pet.

DramaAlpaca · 05/04/2019 22:36

I vote for cats, I adore them - just don't tell my spaniel, who's totally convinced I'm a dog person Wink

origamiunicorn · 06/04/2019 17:47

@Mordred

That's not excited. This is excited.

Chesneyhawkes1 · 06/04/2019 17:53

Dogs

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