Dogs vs. Cats

[windshieldbug]

I checked both. We were solely cat owners until some friends had to move back to England and needed someone to take their dog.
So, we adopted Pebbles, a 4 year old corgi.
However, Mo Vaughn here (who is 13) was about as happy with the new living arrangments as one would expect a 13-year-old cat to be. He has since grown to accept the situation, now the two of them get along fine (most of the time).

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

[MaryAnn]

Corgis are more like cats than dogs, from my experience.

No, you can't boss a cat around; but if you respect them and *ask* them to do things, they will. At least mine does, sometimes with voiced complaints that are hilarious. But I'm also quite aware that the only reason why I'm the Head Cat in the house is because I'm bigger; if I weren't bigger, or wasn't the food/water supply, I would not be boss.

And that really is what it comes down to....do you NEED to be the boss? If so, you're going to be a dog person.

Having a dog is like having a kid that never grows up; having a cat is like having an adult from a different culture than you, sharing your house.

MA

[TMurphy]

Sometime after the holidays (probably the weekend after New Year's), I will be adopting two cats from a friend of mine, one male, and one female (both fixed, so no kitty babies running around). She is moving in with her fiancé, who is very allergic to cats, and can't have them in the house. The arrangement is supposed to be temporary...I'm taking them for 6 months, until someone else, who has agreed to take them, moves into their new apartment in the summer. I have the option of keeping 1 or both of them, if I so desire.

The best part is, because I'm helping her out, she's giving me *all* the supplies needed to take care of two cats for six months, at no cost to me.

[Rick Denney]

No, you can't boss a cat around; but if you respect them and *ask* them to do things, they will. At least mine does, sometimes with voiced complaints that are hilarious. But I'm also quite aware that the only reason why I'm the Head Cat in the house is because I'm bigger; if I weren't bigger, or wasn't the food/water supply, I would not be boss.

And that really is what it comes down to....do you NEED to be the boss? If so, you're going to be a dog person.

Having a dog is like having a kid that never grows up; having a cat is like having an adult from a different culture than you, sharing your house.

This could be framed and hung on the wall in our house.

Maintaining the psychological upper hand with cats requires intelligence and finesse. With dogs, it only requires having dog biscuits handy. Sheesh.

Rick "whose cat comes when called--by me" Denney

[Chris Smith]

I like tubas and not animals.

[lgb&dtuba]

I like tubas and not animals.

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

[The Big Ben]

Is that a stuffed dog?

That's 44 pounds of spoilt rotten mess.

Ernest Hemingway, from _The_Sun_Also_Rises_:

"A man needs a stuffed dog. The road to hell is paved with unclaimed stuffed dogs."

[MaryAnn]

So why do I write tubist instead of tubaist? Because it's not violaist, it's violist.
So there.

MA

[windshieldbug]

Some of us write "vilest"

[SplatterTone]

In the new spirit of multi-cultural inclusiveness, here's a pet horse.

[steve_decker]

Is the doggie surfing TubeNet with you?

[steve_decker]

Is the doggie surfing TubeNet with you?

He whispers the URL's to me. Hey! That explains how we always end up on the doggie treats pages!

Just make sure he keeps up with his doggie mail! http://www.petcentric.com/doggiemail/" target="_blank

[PWtuba]

[Kevin Hendrick]

Ack -- it's a furry cobra! (where'd I put that oboe? )

[tubatooter1940]

I only wish I could live out my few years remaining to me without dogs or cats crapping on my floors, bugging me about food, destroying my possessions and requiring us to pay boarding before we can leave home for longer than a day.
I have been told that this will never happen.

[Donn]

I only wish I could live out my few years remaining to me without dogs or cats crapping on my floors, bugging me about food, destroying my possessions and requiring us to pay boarding before we can leave home for longer than a day.

I'm with you. We have a cat. Warm, fuzzy, lovable, but since the lady of the house is allergic, hopefully this one will not be replaced. The neighbors' cats aren't welcome either - I doubt they kill as many rats as they do songbirds, and they certainly aren't a match for the damned grey squirrels.

I've seen a few dogs who grow up with a reasonably responsible human and get to tag along with that guy all day, and they seem different. It's like they grow up, and maybe aren't quite as cute, but far more self-assured and well behaved. Maybe less neurotic than the average dog who is obliged to live in a social setting that doesn't really work so well for a pack animal. I like dogs, but wouldn't want to keep one in my house in the city, waiting all day to see me for an hour or two before I take off for a practice or something.

My favorite pets have been mud dauber wasps. So called because they make nests of mud, a row or two of cylindrical capsules. The wasps are very long and mostly black, and they're a good example of a solitary wasp, as opposed to the social hornet types which are vicious, obnoxious creatures with few redeeming virtues. Solitary wasps mostly prey on insects, for their young, and flowers for themselves. The male and female work together to get their little family started, and then they die and leave their young to emerge alone as new adult wasps in the late spring. Maybe unable to fly yet, maybe a little stunned by the world they are seeing for the first time (and they do have pretty good eyesight), maybe a little cold, they will walk onto your finger and sip a small drop of sugar water until it's all gone. Then set them in a warm spot in the sun, and your pet responsibilities are done, but you'll see your wasps coming and going all summer, out hunting for spiders or carrying them back.

[Donn]

I believe I've told my cat-and-squirrel story here before, so I won't retell it in the forum. It is astonishing.

Got it. Well, I believe you, but would never expect any such thing from a cat - I reckon that was a very unusual one. Maybe some Manx in its parentage?

[SplatterTone]

I will admit that cats are better harmonica players.

[Virtuoso]

I've had many dogs and many cats...but one of my favorite things to see is still my huge Mancoon cat stalking and then chasing my dogs around (beagle and collie) the house. I love all my pets, but my cats, especially Duke, the aforementioned mancoon, are much cuddlier than the dogs, and smell much better.



how do you post a picture?

[Brassdad]

My Bulldog prefers cats......