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See this is why Wiener dogs are superior. They come pre-ducking so you have a clear field of fire.

A dog will be your best friend, a cat is more like the cool guy who allows you to hang out with him

This *10

 Stormwall wrote:
My cats and dogs ally to take down prey.

I don't understand it.

Interesting. Sounds like...

 gorgon wrote:
I don't trust men who own cats.

If you have a SO and it's hers, fine. No issues. But single dude with a cat? Eh.

I realize that this is a viewpoint that will likely be met with criticism. However, those are my true feelings on the matter. *shrug*

I don't trust men who think ridiculous things.

What exactly is the problem with a single man having a cat (you know, besides... nothing)? Is it the idiotic stereotype that having a feline is somehow "feminine" and therefore if a man has one there is something inherently "wrong" with him? Hopefully that isn't the case here so I think maybe you should clarify your opinion a little better.

 Swastakowey wrote:
My Dovahkittin catches her prey with skill not trickery. Like a civilized creature.

Non-sense. Civilized creature do not catch their prey. They grow their food in a lab and destroy their enemies by pushing a button!

 Frazzled wrote:
Pantherdoghere to save the day! Pantherdog! Stalks like a panther, barks like a dog!

pantherdog and daschundkrieg. Awesome!

 gorgon wrote:
I don't trust men who own cats.

If you have a SO and it's hers, fine. No issues. But single dude with a cat? Eh.

I realize that this is a viewpoint that will likely be met with criticism. However, those are my true feelings on the matter. *shrug*

Not criticism but curiosity. Why the trust issue?

Shameless Team-Cat propaganda in the OP.

For one thing, cats' tongues gently touch the water surface, but dogs' smash through it, as cameras under a water trough showed. Dogs "make lots of splashing, but a cat never does," Jung said.

Cat serving stooges would have you believe that cats delicate drinking methods are refined. They are not, its just that cats cant stand getting wet, and thus drinking is a problem for the feline degenerates. Dogs however just splash in, not problems, because dogs don't suffer from these effete feline psychological disorders.

Also, cats pull up their tongue to create the water column with a force up to twice that of gravity. Dogs create a force up to eight times gravity.

Clear dog superiority here, though mentioned in passing and overlooked in the conclusion Four times more water force, four times more quality, the difference between canine and feline.

Pigs are better than both of them. They're smarter, cleaner, and have better personalities.

I like cats. Had cats growing up. They are cool. They fight off Sleepwalkers and stuff for us.


But dogs evolved alongside us. They are totally team human.


So it's a toss up.

cats are more likely to get hit by a car. I have seen this, i have done this, you do not want this.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
Is it the idiotic stereotype that having a feline is somehow "feminine" and therefore if a man has one there is something inherently "wrong" with him?

Possessing a cat is a feminine behavior because it is considered to be a feminine behavior by society, the group that defines the nature of femininity. That said: acting in a feminine way is never wrong, regardless of sex.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
Is it the idiotic stereotype that having a feline is somehow "feminine" and therefore if a man has one there is something inherently "wrong" with him?

Cats act more feminine than masculine. They are aloof and walk funny like women do, carefully placing their feet as if there are bombs under the floor. They think they can come and go when they please and are only grateful when it suits them. You feed them, house them, give them gifts and depending on the time of day they might not even give you the time of day. They only gak in one place and only when no-one is looking and then try to cover it up. And if someone else comes along with more of what they want (money, food, pretty baubles)

A dog is manly. A dog walks like it owns the world, because it does. It gaks wherever it likes because no feths were given to who is watching or about. You feth with them, they feth you up. They're loyal. They're grateful for every morsel of meat and scratch behind the ear because they know the world don't owe them gak. They'll do whatever it takes to protect what's important to them. They have concepts of brotherhood and equality.

 Orlanth wrote:
Shameless Team-Cat propaganda in the OP.

For one thing, cats' tongues gently touch the water surface, but dogs' smash through it, as cameras under a water trough showed. Dogs "make lots of splashing, but a cat never does," Jung said.

Cat serving stooges would have you believe that cats delicate drinking methods are refined. They are not, its just that cats cant stand getting wet, and thus drinking is a problem for the feline degenerates. Dogs however just splash in, not problems, because dogs don't suffer from these effete feline psychological disorders.

Also, cats pull up their tongue to create the water column with a force up to twice that of gravity. Dogs create a force up to eight times gravity.

Clear dog superiority here, though mentioned in passing and overlooked in the conclusion Four times more water force, four times more quality, the difference between canine and feline.

Orlanth has the way of it.

"Dogs, I admire their...perfection."
-Ash, a robot who knew his teethed critters.

 Hordini wrote:
Pigs are better than both of them. They're smarter, cleaner, and have better personalities.

Taste better too.

cat tastes better than dog. wait, chicken is a type of cat, right?

So what you're saying is...cats are water benders?

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Hordini wrote:
Pigs are better than both of them. They're smarter, cleaner, and have better personalities.

Taste better too.

That is also true.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So what you're saying is...cats are water benders?

This is true.

They also have the decency to bury their poop. Dogs just leave landmines.

Dogs are kids.
Cats are teenagers

 Deadshot wrote:

Even buglars don't want to kill dogs.

There's been a few break-ins here where the dog was the first thing shot. It's a property damage crime punishable by a couple of hundred dollar fine (killing an animal). Meth. Not even once.

Unless they took a long time and perverse joy in prolonging the kill, there's no other punishment.

The burglary will probably get gaol time, though. ONLY for the burglary.

 dogma wrote:

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
Is it the idiotic stereotype that having a feline is somehow "feminine" and therefore if a man has one there is something inherently "wrong" with him?

Possessing a cat is a feminine behavior because it is considered to be a feminine behavior by society, the group that defines the nature of femininity. That said: acting in a feminine way is never wrong, regardless of sex.

An astute interpretation.

squidhills wrote:
My first cat, Fang (named him after Phyllis Diller's husband) was a feline murder machine. Anything that wasn't human in my house (or our yard, despite Fang being an indoor cat) died at his hands. Moles, mice, snakes, wasps, spiders, a groundhog.... made more impressive by the fact that he didn't have any claws and did all his killin' with his teeth.

And he wasn't scared of people, either. If you weren't careful in my house, you'd walk around a corner and have him suddenly attacking your knees. Not your ankles, like most cats, but your knees. He knew they were a better weak point, and he would jump up to get them.

He was like an angry douchebro tweaking on crystal meth. I miss that cat.

My second cat, Gracie (she kinda looked like Grace Jones) was the polar opposite and was completely terrified of anything that wasn't me. She was the archtypical scaredy-cat, and was afraid of big things, small things, fast things, slow things, things that were colored green, and things that were not colored green. I miss her, too.

That sounds a lot like one of my cats named Felix. He has become a legend through my family over the years, we even joke that one day he would bring back a whole deer carcass But he had taken on dogs with no remorse, ground moles a den of possums! The list goes on. Once he got mad at me and attacked so I had to actually fend him off. I ended up kicking him into the dryer and it dazed him, when he got back up he gave me a look of either good job human, or your going to pay for that human. Not sure which

Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.

I miss Maksica. She raised four of your dogs. Best surrogate mother they could get, even if she tried to force them to hide in the couch years after they've outgrown her by a factor of ten.

My current pack doesn't even know what a cat is, other than the occasional sorry furball that gets over the fence. It's a gristly business.

 Torga_DW wrote:
Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.

This is only true of those who do not understand the spychology of cat. Just some examples of different psychologies of cat ownership.

My sister and her husband have a cat and are cat people, once because it was cold they warmed the milk in the microwave. From then on the cat expected milk to be served warm.

My attitude to the family cat in my fathers home is that it is up to me when its cuddle time, everyone else risks getting scratched if the cat is not in the mood. I get complained at, but the cat just accepts it from me. I also deliberately feed the cat irrelguarly until it understood that it was up to make when it was fed, I had no obligation to stick to a schedule and the cat has to wait from time to time. The cat understands this and we coame to an arrangement, cat gets fed and sheltered, and I play with the cat whenever I want to, even if he was cosily asleep. Its a mercenary arrangement, as just about all relationships with cats are, but its one of my choosing.

Dogs on the other hand, give their loyalties easily and don't expect much, and our dog like many others receives our loyalty in turn.

 Orlanth wrote:

My sister and her husband have a cat and are cat people, once because it was cold they warmed the milk in the microwave. From then on the cat expected milk to be served warm.

Er... isn't milk actually bad for cats? Unless you're somehow buying cat milk?

 streamdragon wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:

My sister and her husband have a cat and are cat people, once because it was cold they warmed the milk in the microwave. From then on the cat expected milk to be served warm.

Er... isn't milk actually bad for cats? Unless you're somehow buying cat milk?

Well, its not bad for them because its not cat milk. Its because the cat is an adult, and has thus lost its ability to digest lactose. Non-weaned Kittens can drink milk just fine.

No different than a human who is lactose intolerant really. But the digestive upset caused by this is a much bigger deal in animals who have a limited diet.

The cat at my fathers house cant have milk, the cat at my sisters house has milk daily.
Not all cats are the same in this regards

 Grey Templar wrote:

 streamdragon wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:

My sister and her husband have a cat and are cat people, once because it was cold they warmed the milk in the microwave. From then on the cat expected milk to be served warm.

Er... isn't milk actually bad for cats? Unless you're somehow buying cat milk?

Well, its not bad for them because its not cat milk. Its because the cat is an adult, and has thus lost its ability to digest lactose. Non-weaned Kittens can drink milk just fine.

No different than a human who is lactose intolerant really. But the digestive upset caused by this is a much bigger deal in animals who have a limited diet.

Exactly. Adult animals are not supposed to drink milk, nor is milk intended for harvesting and feeding to adults of other species. Which is what lactose intolerance is.

The evidence speaks for itself: