# Cats vs. Dogs: How do you want to live? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671 "2008-04-09T21:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@Eben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eben)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/1 "2008-04-09T21:38:24Z")
All of the legal threads has me thinking about the root of many of the arguments. So I ask this question: Do you want to live as A) A cat (ie personal freedom with minimal interferance, but also minimal security) or B) A dog (ie little personal freedom with massive interferance, but maximum security) -Eben ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/2 "2008-04-09T21:42:16Z")
I’m more of a cog. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/3 "2008-04-09T21:43:37Z")
Dogs rule cats drool. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/4 "2008-04-09T21:52:47Z")
Cats swoop dogs poop ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/5 "2008-04-09T22:02:11Z")
Dogs have masters Cats have staff. Sounds like a no-brainer to me. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/6 "2008-04-09T22:06:34Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Cats swoop dogs poop [/QUOTE] So, your cats are all full of shit? I thought so. [QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Sounds like a no-brainer to me. [/QUOTE] Takes one to know one. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/7 "2008-04-09T22:20:10Z")
I’m a dot, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/8 "2008-04-09T22:22:20Z")
Always been a cat person myself. I pretty much do live like a cat at the mo anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/9 "2008-04-09T22:26:03Z")
[QUOTE=Nancarrow] Always been a cat person myself. I pretty much do live like a cat at the mo anyway. [/QUOTE] You sleep twenty hours a day and spend the rest of your time killing vermin? ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/10 "2008-04-09T22:28:02Z")
Our \*\*Feline Overlords \*\* do not permit me to respond to threads like this. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/11 "2008-04-09T22:29:27Z")
[QUOTE=begbert2] I’m a dot, myself. [/QUOTE] I’m all dat. Though I don’t understand the lack of security for the cats thing. Seems like they have freedom AND security. ---
**Author:** ![Anomalous\_Reading](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Anomalous\_Reading](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anomalous_Reading)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/12 "2008-04-09T22:53:30Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] I’m all dat. Though I don’t understand the lack of security for the cats thing. Seems like they have freedom AND security. [/QUOTE] Do I get to keep my claws? If so, cat. If not, then the metaphor breaks. I can’t consider being a dog. (sidenote: dogs ram their noses in every butt in town, when you kiss a dog, where do you kiss? Ewwww… Obviously not a dog person anyhow.) ---
**Author:** ![Eben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@Eben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eben)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/13 "2008-04-09T23:01:57Z")
[QUOTE=Anomalous Reading] Do I get to keep my claws? If so, cat. If not, then the metaphor breaks. [/QUOTE] Yep, you get to keep your claws. The lack of security for a cat comes from a shorter life-span if allowed outside at night compared to the average dog. Being free to roam increases injury, plus cats being smaller makes them harder to see when driving over them. It’s interesting to note that indoor cats have about the same life expectancy as dogs, so then they have the same security with less behavioral expectations. I think I’m a cat that wants to be a dog wishing he was a cat… -Eben ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/14 "2008-04-09T23:44:09Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] You sleep twenty hours a day and spend the rest of your time killing vermin? [/QUOTE] If you consider monsters in ‘Quake’ to be vermin, then… yeah, pretty much. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/15 "2008-04-09T23:45:52Z")
I’d rather be a bonobo. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/16 "2008-04-10T00:50:12Z")
I remain a human being. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/17 "2008-04-10T01:39:37Z")
I’m an elephant shrew, of course. Small, endangered, and I eat bugs. Y’know, come to think of it, I’m having a hard time seeing the selling point in this racket. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/18 "2008-04-10T01:44:46Z")
A cat. A big, mother-fucking cat. One that makes a lion look look like a tabby. ROAR! ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/19 "2008-04-10T01:55:35Z")
Anything but a candiru. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671/20 "2008-04-10T02:13:34Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] I’d rather be a bonobo. 😉 [/QUOTE] Of course you would. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs-how-do-you-want-to-live/444671.md?page=2)