# A lifetime dog person is considering a future cat **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 13, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lifetime-dog-person-is-considering-a-future-cat/829503 "2019-02-13T21:45:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lifetime-dog-person-is-considering-a-future-cat/829503/61 "2019-02-15T09:01:35Z")
Lots of good advice in this thread that I won’t repeat. But… I will say that if a cat pisses in strange places, like the bathtub, it’s a strong sign of a urinary infection. To the vet toot de suite. Takes a few weeks of pills to fix, so don’t delay. Male, unfixed cats can spray, quite nasty to find on a chair leg. I have found that males fixed late in life may continue this behavior, so beware if you get a mature, unfixed male. Our cats were never, ever allowed on counter or table tops. Makes food preparation, eating, and computer use much more enjoyable. They can be trained, although I wouldn’t advise leaving an unattended chicken out for a test. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lifetime-dog-person-is-considering-a-future-cat/829503/62 "2019-02-15T13:50:07Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I don’t mind my cats getting up on things. I feed them on a small piece of counter top that turns from a odd corner. Away from the dogs. They jump up on any counter that has a sink because they like running water. They get up in the beams and on top of all the high furniture. I have 2 cat trees that they love. They hang out mostly in the laundry room, on the dryer. They have a bed there. So that is a big difference from dogs, who are normally below you on the floor. You’ll have reconcile that. **Beck** , are [these](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpPGE_SKtA4) your cats? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lifetime-dog-person-is-considering-a-future-cat/829503/63 "2019-02-16T00:17:10Z")
I’ve had cats and dogs my entire life. I love them both, but I’m more of a cat guy. Most of our cats were American Shorthair, but we had a Manx (good hunter; used to bring live snakes home to scare mom and sis), a Siamese (that cat was nuts) and 3 Main Coons (all exceedingly sweet-natured). Our current cat is an American Shorthair. A lady rescued him from an owl who was in flight with it’s talon clamped onto the kitten’s head (I don’t believe the owl was taking the feline for a joy ride). She whacked the owl with a broom and kitty fell to the ground. I adopted him. He’s got a permanent scar on the back of his head and a bent ear from the talon. His name’s Tibby (coincidentally, my name, too). Tibby is by far the most affectionate cat I’ve ever had. In fact, he’s much too affectionate. I now work from home and he sticks to me like white on rice 24/7. Follows me everywhere I go. Purrs and chatters constantly like a Siamese. Wakes me up every night with his dough kneading and edging me off to a corner of the bed. We had to have our schnoodle dog [Daisy](https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipMWKXTfOa8UEhda5XHeUMohh41YAyE4FDbew_DO/photo/AF1QipO2QT9Wj9qLvcXm-BKeWImbQmj_ejghWCo20m4J) put down on Monday (she was mainly my daughter’s dog). Tibby misses her, too (he used to dive bomb Daisy from the table as she walked by). Here’s a pic of [Tibby](https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOSfajxZ_RM6QYPYhZMnGq34LH-LWt2uDOEJ1JHJxRlXOR6lsoBdVHklqeZLUzZhg/photo/AF1QipPTCawTZ77XZP7MHJ4rqMiSLWY938Cy15UU6QK0?key=UU9wTVU4czdBaU16V0M2bUZweDJsdTI2OTVCX3BB). But, I warn you, if you have a cat, you may not want to click—he’s the handsomest tomcat on the planet and he’ll make your cat look ugly by comparison. 😉 Get a cat. Cats are the cat’s meow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lifetime-dog-person-is-considering-a-future-cat/829503.md?page=3)