Are you a dog person or are you a cat person? What defines being a cat person or dog person?

[teaboyjim]

I've often heard people say they are either a dog person or a cat person. Is it simply the fact you prefer one or the other as pets or is there more to it than this?
I always believe that if a cat was hungry and you were incapacitated for some reason the cat would eventually eat you whereas a loyal and faithful dog would pine away and die rather than eat it's master

 

[EFLImpudence]

I hate dogs.

I don't know why. I just detest everything they are.


In response to your saying a cat would eat you; I suppose it might if you were dead - for a little while while still fresh.
However they don't kill children.

 

[securespark]

I've had cats since 1989.

More independent: you can go away for a day or so and leave food and water down and they're happy.

 

[Notch7]

I don't know why. I just detest everything they are

Dogs are amazing characters, you have to have one to understand.

 

[Notch7]

However they don't kill children

more humans kill children every year than dogs.

By logic therefore you hate humans more than dogs.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

If I lived alone but for a cat and I happened to pop it, I would sooner the cat munched on my decaying corpse and survived rather than a dog pining away and starving to death.

 

[sxturbo]

i like cats and dogs,

but i find cats are easier to live with, they are less smelly, dont need walks, can be left for a day with some food or water, and they dont make a fuss of people as they walk through the door jumping up at them and all sorts.

 

[Mottie]

In response to your saying a cat would eat you; I suppose it might if you were dead - for a little while while still fresh.
However they don't kill children.

On the other hand, cats can’t be trained to do this.

 

[JohnD]

Hero cat

 

[JohnD]

My cat is not at all helpful. I locked myself out the other day.

The cat was sitting on the stairs looking at me through the glass panels in the door.

I called him, and said, "Look, Tig, my keys are in my jacket pocket. If you drag it over here and hold it by the letter box, I can reach through and get them."

He just looked at me, and said "Me? How?"

 

[EFLImpudence]

Dogs are amazing characters, you have to have one to understand.

No.

more humans kill children every year than dogs.
By logic therefore you hate humans more than dogs.

That's not logic.

Both of your responses are irrelevant as far as my thoughts are concerned.

 

[motorbiking]

I've always had cats.. Gave the dog thing a try when my kids were younger via the borrowmydoggie community. A great way to combine an a occasional dog sitter with some kids that fancy a dog but will grow out of the idea. After having a brown lab on and off, my kids realised they are truly disgusting animal and eat and roll in all kinds of sh$t (literally).

Cats can be lower maintenance, but they are particularly dumb. I certainly wouldn't be fighting to keep our two in any custody battle.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

As well as some endearing and sometimes downright soppy personality traits, cats can be a bit quirky or dopey or selfish, out and out thick, smelly and any of the other seemingly unattractive traits anyone wishes to throw their way and they're all the reasons I like them.

I like (some) dogs too.

 

[fillyboy]

We've had cat's for over forty years now, usually two at a time. The current pair keep staring at me, bastards.

 

[transam]

I like both tbh

but I have never had a dog

always had cats

had one for 7 years he just moved in with me

present cat I rescued as a kitten