# Cats vs Dogs **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 12, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs/49696 "2001-01-12T14:24:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs/49696/21 "2020-10-25T22:04:56Z")
There are [these fellows](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HZndLGrfu8g) and [guy #2](https://youtube.com/watch?v=z1tih6dsjCg), that looks like at least eighty pounds, but, seriously, don’t get any ideas… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs/49696/22 "2020-10-25T22:30:20Z")
I once had two cats, a 27-pounder and a 9-pounder. The smaller one slept with one eye open. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs/49696/23 "2020-10-28T06:24:53Z")
While I feel that I am fundamentally a cat person, I really, really love my dog, and I think she loves me, too. Conversely, I think Mrs, Barnacle Is fundamentally a dog person, but she loved our (recently deceased) cat, much more than I did. So it goes. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs/49696/24 "2020-10-28T06:26:40Z")
I should also add that I have a theory that states that horse people are automatically dog people, whether or not they like dogs better than cats. ---
**Author:** ![JBlackstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jblackstone/32/5256_2.png) [@JBlackstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBlackstone)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs/49696/25 "2020-10-28T08:04:39Z")
I have cats and dogs and while my dog loves me my cat thinks I’m a scratching post abd looks at me like Im an arsehole! Still love her though 🥰 ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs/49696/26 "2020-10-29T20:10:10Z")
Having kept many species of animals (horses, sheep, goats, geese, ducks, chickens, cats, dogs, fish both tropical and cold water, mice, rats, hamsters, snakes, lizards … and, briefly, a slime mold), I have developed some strong preferences about the animals I want to care for. 1. Must be a social animal by nature. Cats are let out right there. 2. Must be able to be kept in a fairly optimal state, using the resources I have available. This also lets out cats, because I am absolutely opposed to the fucking handwaving that cat lovers make over the millions and yes it is millions of songbirds cats kill every year. But cats are not optimally kept confined indoors either. Same is true of cage birds. Won’t keep them. 3. Possessed of an interesting degree of intelligence. This is why I keep goats instead of sheep, for example. 4. Contribute something. My chickens lay eggs, my horse gives me a pretty magicall way to get out into the countryside, and my goats provide me with milk and yogurt and chevre. My dogs are presently rather a burden, being so old I’m essentially a canine geriatric nurse, but at one time I did rely on them for farm work. I think I’d like cats more (though I won’t keep one again) if people didn’t make up such stupid stories about what they are thinking. Seems like they are blank slates for everybody’s anthropomorphic imaginations to go into overdrive. I spend most of my time surrounded by animals. I “get” them. They may or may not be ‘simpler’ than humans, but they sure don’t talk as much. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs/49696/27 "2020-10-29T23:52:40Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I once had two cats, a 27-pounder and a 9-pounder. The smaller one slept with one eye open. Hmm. Design a dwelling or place the bigger one can’t get in or get to? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-vs-dogs/49696.md?page=1)