Dogs— you have companionship
Cats—- servitude.
Cats seem to have a wider range of personalities than dogs, but both make great pets when treated correctly according to their nature. Although I am more a dog person than a cat person, the only pet that I have these days is a formerly fearful stray black and white tuxedo cat who now hangs about me like a dog, hoping to be petted. He is at present sitting between me and the keyboard, enjoying the attention offered by quietly sitting between arms as I type.
EXACTLY
Dogs— you are the owner and master.
Cats—- you are less than a pet than a servant.
(We have a "community cat" here in city, thank God, mother of about 25 kittens before she was "fixed," whose residence is in apt 2 across the street. But "Loli" does not like to stay indoors 9even in Winter) - nor be handled - so she has adopted us since God feeds her on our front porch, meaning people leave food for her, and she catches mice and rats, and often eats the parts she likes.
She just likes to eat out at "whole foods." Always looking for food (suspect she has worms) and turns up her nose at dry cat food since she discovered she may get wet cat food if she does.
Years ago, another cat adopted us, as her host/servant moved away. She "mittens" climbed up the porch to our 2nd floor apt and came in, and her new host fed him ("Science diet" I think it was called) and that settled it. The sound of the car opener was his joyful sound.
Not wanting a kitty litter box, I made a flap door out of a piece of plywood which went in a side widow a few feet from the porch, and i taught him how to use it (put tuna fish outside). From that point on he had freedom to come and go as he pleased, and brought home presents of mice, birds, and an occasional snake, which she ate. Yes, he was a real predator, and who also did not like being handled. (I hav him a bath one time, and I hardly ever heard such howling sounds.)
He got an abscessed tooth one time, which the vet said needed a $400 surgery. Instead, I held the car firmly, and (as I had done to myself in the past) punctured the abscess, and used H202 as antiseptic. Cat healed fine. Another time we prayed over the cat for another healing, and she recovered. Thank God.
The main local Facebook page (run by liberals, since they typically lust for power) abounds with posts about lost cats, and admonitions to NEVER let your cat outside, as if somehow they cannot survive. They are far more protected than the unborn, which are treated as sewage or cancerous growths by most of the same liberals who treat wildlife (which is to be respected, but controlled in residential areas) as gods. If I posted that on the local FB page it never would be allowed, nor me on it after warning.