Haha fair enough. Incidentally, we have a cat who plays fetch much better than my dog, though the dog is much better at opening doors (unfortunately)!
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Cats or Dogs? Let's find out which species is superior.
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Big what @ that spoiler. Is this something from the furry community? That doesn't sound reasonable at all.
Have...
have you not read the thread???
I wasn't joking; those were actual condemnations of dog owners from cat owners being posted in this thread.
And it happens all the time. 🤣
Has nothing to do with Furry either; dogs are exponentially more popular than domestic cats within the fandom as characters/sonas/suits.
Dogs: "woof woof you left me for 5 minutes and thought you were never coming back so I eat your couch woof woof"
Cats: "Oh you're back? Cool, hi, yeah, it's been a quiet day except for that stupid bird that keeps coming. Hey, are we eating yet?"
We bred them and fostered that though, and messed up the balance of all the other parts of what would be their natural environments. Left alone they would have found balance, we can't blame them for following their instincts if they go outside into an environment we destroyed...
I'm sure though, if we got rid of cat breeding and other meddling and cats were simply wild, they'd find thier own ways to play us dumb humans!
Looks like the fix is in. All day long yesterday cats were comfortably leading the poll, then suddenly dogs are way ahead. Hmmm.
Yup, I confronted my bullmastiff about his voting record this morning and he looked guilty as sin
Cats: Your couch looks like a good scratching post. Let me use that as one. As well as your shoes, and your posters, and your wood furniture, and your costume parts. Oh, your expensive glasses and china are on the table? Let me knock them over and break them because I'm beholden to the instinct to drop animals to see if they're alive.
Dog: *(sleeping in the corner)*
It's just that dog owners came back from taking them out, or just got their new cables after their dogs chew them and can finally log in again
Cat people just couldn't stay organized long enough to land the W ☹🤷♂️
Reading my comment back it sounds much harsher than I intended, I was only mocking seriousness... I hope it didn't come across harshly, apologies if it did.
Don't get me wrong, it isn't necessarily a good thing.
If we tell my girlfriend's doggo "down" or "go to your bed" if it has done something bad or when it is trying to play if our attention needs to be elsewhere, it will do it.
Try telling that to her cats... They will meow non-stop, walk over the keyboard if we're working or our heads if trying to sleep, drop toys on us until we're covered in a pile of them.... Little monsters cannot be contained!
Although, if Miso is doing something bad like clawing at the wrong thing (they have their own posts for this), or trying to open the cupboard where her food is with her paw (we've had to lock them as she could get in and drag out the bag...), If we say "no", she has learned to stop... Until we turn our backs for too long, at least...
Like I said, they forgot we needed to count the mail-in ballots, so it makes sense that an Internet poll would lead with the people most likely to be glued to a computer all day. 🍵
"Here, buddy, I got you a scratching post and a couple of animals toys for your boredom"
*Cats learn*
"Hey doggo, bought you theese cookies, want some?"
*Dog vomits, eats its own barf and barfs it again on the carpet*
Ok, now y'all are just being ruthless... Ouch.
Lol.
It's just 35 people that could get out of the house without fear of coming back to a festival of broken furniture
Cat Owner: I spent actual money on you that I had to work hours in the soul-crushing grind of capitalism for for these toys-- oh you don't care for them at all, okay.
Dog Owner: *doesn't feed their dog human cookies because they know better.*
Many cats spend their entire lives just trying to escape the home because they want outdoors and might return if they have a reason to like they are hungry. Most cat owners are effectively their jailer and should actually keep them inside otherwise they wreck havoc on the wildlife. They are your friend because you force them to be, essentially. Not all cats are the same though. Dogs for the most part want to be in the home with you.
It's all a matter of perspective.
We can do the forum science here! Ignoring the self loathing cat owners who "prefer cats because im lazy"
Posts ITT with reference to pet owners rather than the pets (some might be joking, but some definitely don't seem to be).
About Cat owners specifically:
this is from the first half of the thread and that's more than enough of that :S
see, like clockwork.
The worst you can say about Cat owners is the movie CATS exists.
I actually disagree with this... we wrecked the environment to the point there is an imbalance, I'm not going to punish my cats with a lifetime in jail because of it. I will always let my cats out, persoanlly.
Sources such as Battersea Cats and dogs home even recommend ways to do this: https://www.battersea.org.uk/pet-advice/cat-care-advice/introducing-your-cat-outside
Cat Owner: Don't worry buddy, here's a piece of paper with a string attached to it, let's play *cat has the time of his life*
Dog Owner: *cleans carpet of dog cookies and a plethora of missing objects vomit*
Cat will try to escape if they don't like living with you. Like a friend.
The dog will stay with you because they don't know better. Like an animal.
My point exactly
If you can't tell I'm joking around after all my posts on the last two pages, I don't know what to tell you
It is literally a response to an equally silly joke post lol
Most of us are mocking seriousness ITT for the fun of it yeh, just FYI.
Wanting to live outside and hunt is like the most animal behavior you can get. Wanting to live inside and socialize was like a part of our own human evolution.
I think we're just going to have to disagree about what makes something an animal. You keep implying that us humans are more animal than even cats are.
I love my cat and I love my dog. I love more depending on different factors. Like when it's 110 out and my dog wants to go for a walk, I love my cat more. When I can take my dog to the park or hiking, I love my dog more.
For me it doesn't have to be an either or. If the poll had a both choice, I would choose it.
I just love playing with dogs. Cats are cool too but they aren't playful and interactive like most dogs are.
But they do. I even linked a very recent article about what's happening in my own country with feral dogs, as well as the approximated 3x C02 cost of owning a dog. We love these little guys but they can and are all problems for the environment in different ways. If you're going to argue "yea but its not as bad as all the birds being killed" then you missed the point.
Besides the fact that I was clearly poking fun and drawing a parallel between cats famously more aloof behaviour and their owners disposition:
I've heard "dog owners just want obedience", "dogs are for people who are control freaks", "dogs are too dumb to think for themselves and thus dumb people prefer them" at least as often as the cat stereotype. The shit talking absolutely goes both ways, and it should always be disregarded.
EDIT:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but "feral" and "domestic" are two different things and comparing feral dog issues to domestic cat issues isn't really sensible.
I was speculating about the poll outcomes but okay
Another sensitive cat owner playing victim! (That was actually an owner generalization)
Dogs do, though.
This.
I actually love them equally, it's just that my girlfriend's cat is technically my cat (I chose her from the litter, convinced my gf to keep her, and pay for her medical expenses) she just lives with my gf as she has better accommodation for a cat so I'm batting for her here.
I actually love cats and dogs equally :3
Haven't owned pets in many years unless you count goldfish. Its not wise to own pets if you're struggling with mental health to the degree I have been.
there are no superiors in this race. they are our masters and we must feed them and keep them happy at all times, and maybe once in awhile (when they feel comfortable) they will grace us with their furry bodies for us brush over/pet and make us happy. we should be grateful to them to give us that opportunity
I love them both equally
Ah well of course, if we talk seriously, both are great for different reasons. Both can actually be trained to satisfy their needs in the best possible way, with different levels of success depending on their personalities.
My cats don't go outside. One of them tried out of curiosity until the day he met with a neighborhood cat and scared the shit out of him. They have a place they can get for fresh air and bird watching, and toys for hunt play. They are very social with the family but don't like strangers. Like me lmao.
There isn't much native fauna they can wreck around where I live, but it's more dangerous for them to get out. Fighting other cats, neighbors that may poison them, eating a poisoned rat, being ran over by a car, etc. I had a dog that was very smart and liked to go on walks on his own and always returned (of course we also walked him but he just liked being on the street and wander). He had grew up on the street so it was also an urge we couldn't eliminate, but he was finally ran over by a car after several years of this.
People get real weird about that kind of stuff. Like, a family member of mine (who kinda has an issue getting stuck viewing some random things as facts of the universe, like "men don't bathe, they shower") mentions that people who prefer dogs are just insecure and need someone to order around literally EVERY time this topic (dogs and/VS cats) comes up.
I genuinely prefer dogs, but if I wasn't slightly allergic to them, damn if I wouldn't love having a cat. Love meeting and petting cats near my house. Great animals.
If I'm gonna seriously stereotype anyone, it'll be single people owning 3+ dogs and/or cats in a city. I'm sure there are exceptions, but in my anecdotal experience, that's like a huge red flag for weirdo town
Our cats are my wife's ESAs and they've essentially cured her insomnia.
In my personal experience spending most my life with both, earning a dogs trust and becoming a companion is easy while the daily physical needs of long runs/walks, lots of room to play, and mental exercise is more demanding. On the other hand cats are the opposite earning their trust and companionship takes more time and maintaining that trust is a continuous work of reading their behavior and understanding their boundaries, while their physical needs are nearly self maintained. Just different animals.
As someone who loves both I don't get how people clown on lovers of either.
Lol I think it's because you got a mix of both in the thread and pet owners to tend to be defensive, that's their family you're talking about.
But apologies if I have been responding to people in a serious way that were mostly joking.
Lol it's all good.
Cats. Mine are incredibly cuddly, affectionate, smart and don't require needing to be let out to take a piss or shit. They're incredible and are a massive reason I'm still alive...
I absolutely love dogs though too. But I don't have time for a dog. Eventually I'll get a dog.
I absolutely love dogs though too. But I don't have time for a dog. Eventually I'll get a dog.
Fair enough, you've got more bulk. However, you HAVE to know that some of those are jokes (Westbanhof's post) or aren't even actual condemnations of cat owners themselves (mikey_legendary and Hey Please's post), but hey, at least we didn't bring up the fuckin' Nazis:
Cats of course.
You like dags? You need that assurance, do you? You prefer an emotionally shallow animal?
Cat owners' hands aren't clean either. 😤
lvl 99 Pixel I just read through that list of posts you quoted . Most of these are incredibly tame. One does not even express a preference for dogs or negative sentiment for people who prefer cats. I'm not sure what these are supposed to prove, I have seen posts about dog owners in this thread that are much worse than any of these. It's not a big deal, it is not a serious thread.
I'm not sure why you would want to summon over a dozen mildly annoyed dog people to this thread over these posts
I'm not sure why you would want to summon over a dozen mildly annoyed dog people to this thread over these posts
In my defense there, those are movie quotes from Snatch and Meet the Parents, and are just comedy.
No, OP knew what he was doing… I bet you if there was a way to involve tipping in this discussion, he would've done it.