Another potentially long thread here....
I'm pondering my side to the 'chicken and egg' debate and will post that when i have the time.
Meanwhile, following a discussion with a colleague of mine a while ago, I would like to raise the issue of which animals are better.
Clearly, I am siding towards the side of the cat, but they do have minus points, and would like other people's views.
Cat
Good points:
Clean themselves (all over as opposed to the gentials!)
Walk/excersie themselves
Won't eat everything in the food bowl unti it's gone (my experience is that if you put a kilo of food in a dog bowl (yeah, I know!) then by the time I get home from work, not all of it has gone)
Are extremely easy to toilet train (no gradual creep from the lounge to the back door an outside)
Normaly lighter than a dog (Mulder is about 6-7kg) which helps when 'leaping on lap'
I think they're moer amsing to watch (when cleaning hard to reach places and playing with their mates)
They don't smell as much as dogs.
Bad points:
They can be trained, but not to fetch the remote of ward of potential villans,
You can take them for a walk but (a) they don't need it an (b) people frown and laugh.
Hacking up of furblass on the carpet/laminate and constant jumping on tables and kitchen surfaces
In order to save repeating myself for dogs, the reverse is true.
Cats are cheaper than dogs at the vets.
Despite numerous claims, some of our cats do answer to their names, so that one's on the fence.
Cheers, and feel free to add some more points. I'll be posting a couple of pictures soon to prove some good points about cats.
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