Cat or Dog?

[kuvvy]

I've got both a cat and a dog. When taking the dog for a walk n the evening our cat somteimes follows. I feel like the Pied Piper!
They are both due a visit to the vets next week for their annual booster injections. They will both put up a good fight.

Paul

 

[Kat]

I also prefer normal sized mutts. I hate small dogs or any dogs with smushed noses. I don't mean to pick on two previous posters 🙂 , but pugs and Boston terriers are perfect examples of why humans shouldn't play god with dog breeding.

I agree with you up to a certain point, esp with respect to breeds that can't propagate without human intervention. But I think it applies to all domesticated dogs, they are all prone to one problem or another due to breeding by humans--like dogs with long coats, disproportional bodies (e.g. dachshunds), abnormally long ears (hounds), joint and hip problems (large breeds) and skin diseases (sharpeis). I figure they've been domesticated and bred for hundreds or thousands of years for particular reasons, we already damaged them as a species. But they're there and nothing much we can do about it now except care for them, unless we stop breeding all domesticated animals forever.

I like big dogs, too, while I didn't hate small ones I didn't want to keep them before, but the size of my house and lifestyle limited my options. Now I do appreciate their "portability," though large breeds are still my first love 😀

 

[nomade]

Well i love dogs, but cats sometimes are just photogenique...

So it doesn't really matter...

 

[AlexC]

Dogs, but especially rats!

 

[Rachel]

I never liked dogs until we went to pick out our labrador two years ago. I love him to bits.

 

[rover]

How in the world did cats take the lead here?

 

[rover]

I have both too.

Dogs are a mess (in a funny good way)
Cats make a mess (in a gross way)

 

[ZorkiKat]

Meow. Cats rule! 😀

My cats love to be photographed- they demand to be photographed!

Cat or dog? listen here or here

 

[SixtiesM2]

Both, but more dog than cat.

 

[Talisker]

As a zoologist (non-practicing) I like most animals (except cockroaches - something about the way they move...). But it has to be cats. I've never owned a dog but have lived with them on a few occasions and loved them to bits but the purry furballs have it every time. We currently have two - Talisker (who should be my avatar!) and Tamdhu, who were both strays who decided that living with us was much better than being on the street.