whatever...I don't know where all your animosity toward cats comes from. Growing up with both cat and dog I know how wonderful both can be and realize that it comes down to the personality of each animal. Who knows?, though, maybe a puddy cat scratched you as a kid when you tried to set it's tail on fire.
No animosity at all, I have lived with cats in the past. Never abused animals. My wife's grandmother has a cat that loves to bat at water coming out of a faucet and to sit on me when we visit. I do how cats and dogs are. Cats would rather live solitary lives and dogs would rather live in a pack (your family) just like in the wild. In fact, my dog and my youngest son constantly wrestle with each other, I firmly beleive the dog is doing this to establish dominance over him (he knows he has dominance over my older two sons).