I don't mean to start a controversy

[SocialistLez]

I hate I missed the PBS Nature episode on why some people are dog lovers and why some are cat lovers.
I plan to watch it online.


Sooooo.....I humbly ask, why do you love cats or why do you love dogs? If you love both, why?

I'll state my love later. :)

[Orrex]

1. More dark meat on a dog.

[jobycom]

5. Fucker.

I laughed even before I remembered I was a vegetarian and should be offended. :rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Cats appeal to the intellect and emotional maturity. Dogs appeal to the reptilian brain

and psychological undifferentiation.

[kayakjohnny]

3. Yep... sure... Here's some emotional maturity for ya...

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1468017/pet_hoarding_the_crazy_cat_lady_disease.html

We've all met her at some point: the lonely woman who lives in a filthy house that has been filled to the brim-- and beyond-- with cats. They are emaciated; their ribs jut out from their bodies. The house smells of
ammonia and feces, and the owner of the cats lost count of her pets years ago. She is who we have all come to know as the Crazy Cat Lady.

While Crazy Cat Ladies have become something of a joke among cat lovers, and might be affectionately used to refer to women who simply have a lot of cats, there is nothing humorous about the lifestyle of a true cat hoarder. Pet hoarding is a disturbingly common mental illness that goes far beyond simply having a lot of cats: it is an actual disease that destroys homes and lives.

For unknown reasons, pet hoarders tend to be women-- hence the fact that our Crazy Cat Lady is, stereotypically, a "lady". This may relate to a desire to hoard pets based on maternal feelings, or a desire to care for weak or abandoned animals. Although it begins as an act of compassion and love, the Crazy Cat Lady's desire for companionship quickly escalates into an out-of-control mental illness.

The elderly are especially likely to engage in the process of hoarding cats or other pets, probably because they find themselves socially isolated and crave the companionship offered by a house full of animals. Additionally, Crazy Cat Ladies' obsessive hoarding may result from the onset of Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia, which lend toward paranoid and delusional thinking.

Other forms of mental illness may also play a role in the onset of animal hoarding behaviors. Crazy Cat Ladies are likely to be afflicted with obsessive-compulsive disorder or paranoid schizophrenia, both of which may cause them to delusionally believe that all their pets are cared-for and healthy, despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Pet hoarders may or not be receiving treatment for their mental illness.

[applegrove]

4. I love cats cause you can cuddle with them and they'll purr. They are little

so you can go to sleep with two of them on the bed. Nothing like a cat to sleep with when you have a nap. Plus they pretty well take care of themselves.

[HipChick]

6. I love cats...they are so complex..as a kid, someone thought it would be fun to set his dog on me

never got past that memory, so its out of fear that I dislike dogs..

[jobycom]

7. Cats. I used to say it's because cats are independent and less needy than dogs.

But right now I can't get my cat off my keyboard, and the other keeps repositioning herself so that I can't stretch my feet out in any comfortable manner because they both seem to be afraid that if they don't lie directly within the my personal sphere they will suffer intensely.

So now my answer is that I prefer cats because they are smaller and I can throw them further. :(

[jp11]

8. I concur, cats are more independant and if they like you come around, getting a cat's affection

is a gift given out of appreciation as they don't usually fawn over you the way most dogs do at the drop of a hat. A dog will go nuts cause you opened the door and came home a cat might greet you with a meow or just keep sleeping.

Plus I'll wrassle with a big dog and I don't like having to wash all the slobber off my arms or having to change my clothes cause they stink like dog or are covered in dog hair. Playtime with the cat consists of just washing my hands of some kitty litter scented feet and the occasional hair, no slobber or urine as happens on occasion with a dog.

[GoneOffShore]

9. Of course you mean to start a controversy.

Nice post Hilter.

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