Posted on 06/26/2008 12:29:04 PM PDT by rface
Difference between cats and dogs: Dogs think, "Wowee, these people feed me, play with me, give me toys, clean up my mess and make me very happy. They must be gods!" Cats think, "Wowee, these people feed me, play with me, give me toys, clean up my mess and make me very happy. I must be a god!"
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People who have cats really want a dog but haven't got the time to keep one. So they settle for a cat which is vastly inferior because you can't take it for walks, it wont bring anything back to you unless it killed it first, and it will never ever treat you with anything less than complete contempt.
It is well known, in fact that cats ARE dogs, in spite of what those silly, left-wing inspired dictionaries, naturalists, scientists, and pet owners claim. We at Conservapedia face an uphill battle undoing several centuries of leftwing brainwashing that attempts to sell the notion that these domesticated, four-legged mammal carnivores are different animals entirely, and as soon as I find some scientists and naturalists who agree with me, I'll be sure to post them as cites. Honest. Cross my heart and hope to die.
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People who have dogs are emotionally insecure individuals who need the validation of constant, interminable, unremitting, unconditional affection, affection, affection. That is why Walt Whitman wrote:
I think I could turn and live with cats, they are so placid and self-contain’d I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
Also, dogs slobber.
Well, cats do, too, but at least cats have the courtesy to spread it thinly and discreetly all over their body in a dignified way, where it dries out and becomes invisible except for adding that subtle gloss to their coat.
Unlike our Newfoundland who flings great stringy arcs of slobber all over the house, leaving big dried strings of Newfie spittle on the couch, the television set, and as high as five feet up on our walls.
Cats have many uses of which I'll name just a few.
Cats can be: -Made into violin or racquet strings
-Eaten in fine foreign cuisine
-Taunted for amusement with yarn, feathers and the like
-Dropped upside-down from very high places, only to land rightside-up
-Made into effective scapegoats of superstitious belief
-Killed eight times and emerge unscathed
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From this short list, surely everyone can begin to see just how useful cats truly are!
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Cats are subtle, devious and very very egocentric. Cats treat humans as if they were other cats, whereas dogs attempt to become human. Cats will come to you to be stroked, but if you don't do it right, or they tire of you, you may find that you are suddenly grabbed by claws or teeth. It's what a cat would do to another cat (on friendly terms) to say 'ok, thats enough'. I have known cats to walk into a room, lie on a chair, and when asked to move pretend to be asleep, then behave as if they have been there for hours. Soem cats will even argue with you visibly and vocally. If you understand cat intelligence, you are in a world of subtlety, arrogance and individual need. It's like having the most determined and self-assured three year old imaginable.....
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Did you see this thread yet ping?
"Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow" translates to:
"Food dish is almost empty, litter box needs cleaning, I killed and ate a cricket, where's my treats, and I wanna play with the feather on a string toy but the dumb thing won't work when you're not holding it for some reason so I got mad and bit the feather part off."
Yes. My best friend and her husband have two eight-year-old Labs (littermates - a yellow and a chocolate) and they're always remarking about how the chocolate one acts more like a cat.
My departed Siamese was so smart it was sometimes spooky. Like a lot of cats, he knew how to pull open a cupboard door. But, he also figured out how to pull open drawers: stand up, hook his paws over the drawer edge, and walk backwards to pull it open. And of course then jump in to investigate things.
Very, very vocal.
Dogs are hard-wired to be pack animals, and are biologically driven to fulfill a role within a unit, be it the Alpha or a subordinate member. When properly tapped and channeled, dogs are extremely tractable. Cats, on the other hand, associate with other animals for the purpose of breeding with them or eating them. Humans don't fit neatly into either of these categories so cats seem to associate with us when it's to their advantage (i.e. keeping warm, being fed), but aren't naturally incllined to serve or provide anything for us.
Yes. If the word Cat is in the title it’s a good bet I’ll take a look.
I’ve had both and love both dearly. I do have to say though that the cats I have now are the worst behaved dogs I’ve ever had. LOL
Excellent story, bookmarked. =^..^=
Not all breeds of cats are loners, especially when you start getting into the smaller ones that are the most closely related to house cats. Anyone that’s ever owned more than 1 cat at a time has seen the pack the develop.
Again it’s all about boundaries. If dog owners treated their dogs the way most cat owners treated their cats the dogs would act just like stereotypical cats. Cat owners tend to not define and defend boundaries, so the cats rule the roost, the cat owners haven’t put themselves in charge of the pack so the cats take the alpha position. Being raised among dog people but marrying a cat person I define boundaries with the cats, I take the alpha position. I can the cats stop whatever they’re doing by snapping my fingers, because that’s how I’ve trained, any time they do something bad all discipline is accompanies with finger snapping, eventually is all it takes. Which is a technique I learned accompanying my mother to dog training classes. Every cat the wife and I have had in the 18 years we’ve been together has been snap trained, every one has been taught where they are in the pack and it ain’t on top. Cats are just as tractable as dogs, the difference is the owners.
I wanted to train my cat to go for walks on a leash but after putting a collar on her and attaching a leash then dragging her clear across the garage floor on her side, I decided she didn't want to go for walks...........LOL!
Being a house cat, for some reason she doesn't even want to go into the garage anymore.............
Take Sunday afternoon naps with me (girl snuggles close and boy lays in husband's spot with head on pillow)
Watch me shower
Come when called - most the time
Greet us at the door after work
Alert us to any bugs in the house
Invent games for us to play with them
Have taught us to communicate with them
They are strange creatures, given to coordinated mischief (one will post guard while the other plunders) and unusual affection for us and each other.
We love our kitties!
I love the bloodhounds.
My two dogs (see my homepage) and my cat and myself just finished a walk. After which, we laid on the lawn and shared half a box of Cheese Nips...and my water.
Good doggie.....
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