I’ve always liked cats better than dogs, but only in the last few years have I asked myself why. I came to realize that I enjoy the challenge of obtaining a cat’s love. A cat will definitely tolerate you if you feed it, but it takes more than that to win their affection. To see a cat change from being completely feral to being an affectionate housepet is very cool. Just tonight, a feral cat that we’ve been feeding for a while (we trapped her and fixed her last year), FINALLY head-bumped my hand and let me pet her when I fed her. She crossed the kitty Rubicon! LOL! Not much to some people, but to me it was a thrill. ;o)
I’m with you. It’s a dog’s nature to love its pack leader (which is no way a slur against dogs). A cat’s love must be earned.
“I’ve always liked cats better than dogs”.
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My cats like me better then they like my dog ;
In the last four years here, I have had a vast collection of feral cats. One very nice female had four kittens under the table one night. They are now a month old and a real delight.
I was once feeding as many as 8 cats a year ago, but four were poisoned?, accidentally or deliberately.
A few weeks ago, my neighbor brought me a kitten that he found in the middle of the road, about a mile away.
It is doing ok now, and even nursing from the mother of the other four.
Kittens are free to a good home.
All you do is pay shipping from Cebu island, Philippines, hahaha
I prefer dogs if I had to choose. That said I have 4 cats:) and they have grown on me. I still want a dog again some day. Our cats are all affectionate creatures with 1 preferring to bestow that affection primarily on hubby and one on me. the other two take what they can get from anybody. The one that only lets me cuddle her and runs from others is kinda spooky. She used to follow me around and she still sits there staring at me sometimes, looks like she is trying to figure something out lol. She likes to clean my hand and it almost seems like she feels she’s giving something back for the petting she gets:)
yes- the head bump! You’re hers now...I love it when they challenge you-want more food, scratching something up/ causing trouble etc. and they stare at you; once they blink slowly/close their eyes-they have submitted and you win!
I like both cats and dogs-I also love Muscovy ducks-they are like dogs to me!
I’m not so sure that you two are right about a cat’s love being hard to earn. Other than a wild kitten I had to tame we’ve never had a cat who didn’t naturally love us. Some of them have been lap cats and some haven’t, but they’ve all been loving.