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Mano said:
I had a cat when I was a kid, Mesha, story goes we had to give it away because it kept attacking us kids, especially my younger sister. I was of course young too so I can't remember who really provoked these attacks, but I'll trust my parents on it. Haven't had a cat since. What I do have is a lifetime of knowing other people's cats. I would generously say only about 30% of them were cool, genial animals. Unlike @Robertelamin's cats, most of them sucked, openly disdained you or straight-up threatened your life. I've also had a lifetime of owning and knowing other people's dogs. 99% of them were always genuinely happy to see you and all of them treated humans like living gods.
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lol. What do you mean "cats"? I have one.

No one wants to hear the story of my cat but hes cool and he loves people. Especially people that supposedly hate cats like Mano.
 
Mano said:
Heh, at least that'll make it easy to get her out of a tree if need be. Yoink!
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The main worry is that I find my carefully crafted slip knot down inside a fox's belly.
 
Fishy said:
I don't understand why anyone would willingly invite an animal to live in their house. There are cat people and there are dog people and despite their differences, they're exactly alike in that they live in some degree of animal filth.

No matter what you say about how clean your cat or dog is, it is an animal and it rubs its butt on everything you own. And when it's not rubbing its butt on your stuff, it is looking for stuff to throw up on.

All of you have couches or beds that have animal upchuck particles mixed with animal butt particles on it and that is gross.
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I suppose the blood spray from countless throat punched humans is preferable?
 
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My family had cats my whole life growing up. We always had at least one and sometimes two. I always had allergies growing up; itchy watery eyes, wheezing, nasal congestion etc. I went away to UConn as a young freshman and was immediately surrounded by cigarette smoke, other smoke, dirty stinky sweatsocks, BO and all the other wonderful things you experience in college life. My allergies cleared up immediately despite all of these other "allergens" present. I have decided to abstain from cat parenthood as a result, despite the fact that my beautiful 5 year old daughter really wants one. I have suggested tropical fish. Her doll Molly is apparently allergic to fish so we have ourselves a bit of a stalemate at the moment.
 
We have 2 dogs and my wife is pushing hard for a 3rd

Another G+ every year minimum for food, vet, boarding and no way to forecast the house & yard damage

Brutal

Fishy said:
I don't understand why anyone would willingly invite an animal to live in their house. There are cat people and there are dog people and despite their differences, they're exactly alike in that they live in some degree of animal filth.

No matter what you say about how clean your cat or dog is, it is an animal and it rubs its butt on everything you own. And when it's not rubbing its butt on your stuff, it is looking for stuff to throw up on.

All of you have couches or beds that have animal upchuck particles mixed with animal butt particles on it and that is gross.
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Robertelamin said:
lol. What do you mean "cats"? I have one.

No one wants to hear the story of my cat but hes cool and he loves people. Especially people that supposedly hate cats like Mano.
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I'm totally not trying to intentionally paint you as some kind of crazy cat dude (I am), I meant your many, many familial cats.
 
LOL at all you idiot pet people. I'm with Fishy. You're all dumb.

And Augie? Pray that cat doesn't get used to whizzing outside the litter box. You could burn the house to the ground and still smell that urine.
 
JSM1970 said:
We have 2 dogs and my wife is pushing hard for a 3rd

Another G+ every year minimum for food, vet, boarding and no way to forecast the house & yard damage

Brutal
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Is it absolutely always about money with you? Try gofundme.
 
Deepster said:
LOL at all you idiot pet people. I'm with Fishy. You're all dumb.

And Augie? Pray that cat doesn't get used to whizzing outside the litter box. You could burn the house to the ground and still smell that urine.
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Hmmm, that makes Deepster, shizzle and Fishy, with a strongly leaning JSM. Makes more sense by the second.
 
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Fishy said:
I don't understand why anyone would willingly invite an animal to live in their house. There are cat people and there are dog people and despite their differences, they're exactly alike in that they live in some degree of animal filth.

No matter what you say about how clean your cat or dog is, it is an animal and it rubs its butt on everything you own. And when it's not rubbing its butt on your stuff, it is looking for stuff to throw up on.

All of you have couches or beds that have animal upchuck particles mixed with animal butt particles on it and that is gross.
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That's all true, and yet, having a pet is an awesome experience. My dog is cool as h3ll now that he's not a puppy anymore.

Kids are annoying and gross too, but people still keeping having them.
 
August_West said:
In 2 years im going to be stuck in a house alone. with only a cat and a wife who both hate me. ( Well my wife only hates me most of the time, cat is a full time hater )
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August_West said:
Yeah maybe. You got any advice how to remedy that?
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Get one of these. Claim it's your gig dog. FYI might have to surreptitiously bury the cat at some point tho

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Fishy said:
I don't understand why anyone would willingly invite an animal to live in their house. There are cat people and there are dog people and despite their differences, they're exactly alike in that they live in some degree of animal filth.

No matter what you say about how clean your cat or dog is, it is an animal and it rubs its butt on everything you own. And when it's not rubbing its butt on your stuff, it is looking for stuff to throw up on.

All of you have couches or beds that have animal upchuck particles mixed with animal butt particles on it and that is gross.
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Every time you turn a door handle you're rubbing your hand in fecal matter, you then touch your face with that fecal laden hand. Your toothbrush is full of fecal dust and you willingly put that fecal laden device in your mouth every morning and night. Fishy, you're disgusting.
 
nomar said:
That's all true, and yet, having a pet is an awesome experience. My dog is cool as h3ll now that he's not a puppy anymore.

Kids are annoying and gross too, but people still keeping having them.
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Kids and dogs are far more disgusting than cats. Kids always have runny noses, cr@p their pants every day, pick their nose and eat it, vomit all the time and basically always make their parents sick. Dogs are always licking their own balls and have a predilection to eating their own feces. Cats on the other hand are constantly grooming themselves and they are true gentleman when it's bathroom time, they dig a hole and cover up their business when they are finished.
 
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superjohn said:
Kids and dogs are far more disgusting than cats. Kids always have runny noses, cr@p their pants every day, pick their nose and eat it, vomit all the time and basically always make their parents sick. Dogs are always licking their own balls and have a predilection to eating their own feces. Cats on the other hand are constantly grooming themselves and they are true gentleman when it's bathroom time, they dig a hole and cover up their business when they are finished.
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Counterpoint: dogs are cool and cats are total dicks.
 
I'm pretty sure we got our cat around the same time I first met you, @August_West , but I'm not sure if you know how that story ended because we fell out of touch for several years thereafter.

You may recall that my then-girlfriend, now-Mrs. 8893 came home with a cat from the shelter one day, insisting that she needed company while I was at work (she was waitressing and going to nursing school). I grunted and insisted I didn't like cats, and this one was no exception.

A few months later the cat stopped eating and she brought it to the New Haven Veterinary Hospital to get it checked out. I soon learned that it was like the Johns Hopkins of animal hospitals, as I was paying through the nose for overnight care, barium swallows, GI series and other diagnostic tests. $600 and two days later they tell us that she has several feet of nylon string from our remnant carpet in her intestine, and that she will require $600 more in surgery to remove it. I argued against the surgery, pointing out that we could save a lot of cats for that money, that we barely knew this cat, and that it wasn't like a dog. That last one lost me the argument (even though I was right), and I soon realized that I could save $600 but lose a girlfriend (and a cat).

So, we saved the cat's life and she proceeded to be an absolute bitch, ignoring or biting everyone, including Mrs. 8893, EXCEPT ME. And, she lived more than 20 more years. It was hysterical. She would only come to me, climb up on my chest, sleep and purr. Otherwise she was just as miserable to everyone else as every other cat. And I have to admit that I kind of dug that.

But I like our dogs better.
 
formerlurker said:
Any animal that you can leave alone for a week with enough food/water and the garage door cracked open is not for me. Especially when they look pissed when you actually come back. I go to the mailbox and my dogs act like I've been gone for a month when I walk back in.
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I think it's funny how my cat gives me the cold shoulder after a week or so away. She comes around soon enough. I guess I don't need the constant validation that comes with owning a dumb dog.
 
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Both of my cats were/are great. Our dog was a huge part of my childhood growing up. You can't go wrong with either.
 
Mr. French said:
I'm afraid to even get into this, but quite frankly, if you've had a cat for 2 years and it hates you, that's a you problem.

I love cats. I like Arby's too.
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You have to bond with a cat. It can take a lot of time and patience, and they instinctively know if your heart is not in it. Truer words were never spoken than the line from Bobby DeNiro's character in the movie "Meet the Parents". In reference to his future son-in-laws preference for dogs, he said:

"So Greg, you prefer an emotionally shallow animal? The difference between dogs and cats is you have to work for a cat's affection."

Regardless of what any of these endless studies conclude about which species is smarter, the simple fact that makes cats smarter than dogs is they don't eat their own excrement. Dogs do.

And despite how much anybody thinks their dogs and cats are loyal to them, the only real reason they are is because you provide them with food. Somebody down the block providing them with food will instantly become their new best friend.
 
August_West said:
You just made me realize something . My dog is about to turn 11. Hes got 2 years left maybe . My daughter about to be a junior in high school. She's going to college. The cat probably has a good 16 years left.

In 2 years im going to be stuck in a house alone. with only a cat and a wife who both hate me. ( Well my wife only hates me most of the time, cat is a full time hater )
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You need to bond with the cat.
 
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