Why are you a cat rather than dog person?

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I come from dog stock, and when there are both cat and dog (and other things but ignore them) it is the dogs that are best. And when there is cat, it is usually because a dog is impractical.

I can think of no sane reason to get a cat at all, actually, except to complement ones dog with something that will catch rodents better and be cute with those ball things.

Yet there are actually people who go for cats over dogs, and only cats. And most bizarrely it seems they are the most intelligent. Yep, cat ownership is associated with higher intelligence than dog ownership.

So, cat-lover-who-could-have-a-dog - why is it that you prefer cats to dogs? It makes no sense at all but I am willing to hear what you say. And I'm not your usual pistonheader, I don't pretend that global warming is some conspiracy by the liberal democrats, so you can maybe let me know somethning about this, professor....

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Brigand said:

I've been around cats all my life really, I grew up with them and owned one with my ex for a while, so cat ownership is all I've really enjoyed. I like dogs too, my gran used to have two and it was always fun to be around them, but I would never want to own one.

Dogs are smelly and generally dirtier / messier than a cat is, and require a lot of your time, whereas a cat only requires you feed it every day. (Unless of course they go out and hunt their own food, which dogs don't)

I'd be biased to cats because I've always been around them, but now I'd have the choice of pets I'd still have one.

I can see that having a dog would be a good sense of ownership of a pet, and they are loyal creatures, whereas a cat is essentially an animal that is living with you, and will bugger off to somewhere better (as my mums cat sometimes does) if there is a better deal at some lonely old ladies house in the next street.

The way I see it is you own a dog who is part of a family, but you enjoy the company of a cat who has deemed you adequate to live with because you satisfy its needs.

Thanks, you're one of the few actual cat people who replied to this thread!

It's interesting to see that most other repliers are dog (or dog + cat) folk like me. Not sure why that is, maybe most other cat people are too aloof to reply, or maybe pistonheads is biased towards dog lovers but I can't see why that should be. And even you are not even remotely anti dog, it seems a conveinence thing more than anything else.

Anyone wanna admit to hating dogs?