Cat owners vs dog owners.

[martyj]

My cat meets me at the door almost every night and is the smartest cat Ive ever seen or had she can shake sit and show me her foot on command. The vet refers to her as the smart cat.
I found her starving to death she was infected in the back and weighed 2.5 lbs and now she is 9lbs.

 

[xsn10s]

We've always had both. My Mom's current dog and cat have been more like service pets. They BOTH warn me when my Mom has health issues. They've been a big blessing. And they consider me a great servant lol.

 

[Turkeytider]

More like the human is a servant to a Cat.
The numbers for how long dogs have been domesticated vary wildly from as much as 40,000 years ago.

The domestication of cats is estimated to have occurred around 4,000 years ago in Egypt, where cats were depicted in wall paintings and made into enigmatic statuary, deified, and mummified1. However, more recent studies suggest that domestication may have first occurred in Cyprus around 8,000 to 9,000 years ago1. A groundbreaking study published in Science magazine theorizes that the history of cats as companion animals goes back much further, approximately 12,000 years2. The modern domestic cat is descended from a wild ancestor called Felis silvestris lybica34. Feline domestication probably occurred about 10,000 years ago or more in the Middle East, in the region of the Fertile Crescent4. The concept of domestication dates back to 8,000 years ago when a cat was buried with a human5.

I have raised both Dogs and Cats for well over 60 years. Some of my cats were way smarter than some of my dogs.
I guess it is all what you put into an animal for training and affection.
I do know that a Dog will put everything in so that they will please you.
Cats do everything to have you please them.

LOL! Your very last statement is dead on!

 

[HockeyDad]

In my opinion, one of the only good things about cats is, they go sh#% in other people's yards so you don't have to clean up after them.
The bad news is, I know this because I am the other person.

 

[Calvin45]

Not sure how many barn cats are here, but plentiful.
They live outside, and hunt rodents for food.
We also have dogs, 9 now, as recently we got a new puppy.
The dogs mostly just run free, and while some technically have owners, they are just happy to see anyone who lives here. Because they have formed their own pack so to speak, they also have a hierarchy among themselves.
The dogs are super friendly to me, the barn cats would rather claw my eyes out if I was to try and touch them.

I think it's good for farm dogs to have cats like that around…to put the fear of God into them!!!!

Growing up we had such a cat.,.her name was "Scandal" because it seemed she was always pregnant! . Anyway, she was friendly with humans and absolutely hated dogs…and not defensively! Offensively! As in she would be on the attack if one got too close to her. I witnessed her leap onto our young and stupid black lab's back once when he was pushing his luck and somehow hang on while he ran around howling and shrieking in terror and pain as she lacerated both of his big floppy ears with her claws. It was hilarious and terrifying….and bloody.

He never went near a cat again tho…until he got old and senile and forgot I guess. She was long dead by then.

 

[MtPockets]

My cat meets me at the door almost every night and is the smartest cat Ive ever seen or had she can shake sit and show me her foot on command. The vet refers to her as the smart cat.
I found her starving to death she was infected in the back and weighed 2.5 lbs and now she is 9lbs.

When my wife and I started dating, her kids had a couple of cats.
One would go outside to go. She had trained him to ring a small bell that she'd hung on a string on a door when he needed to go out.
He'd go outside and take care of business, then hang out for awhile before coming back in.
I can't stand catboxes, so I loved that cat. Haven't had another indoor cat since he and his sister passed.

 

[Small Lady]

 

[Turkeytider]

My cat meets me at the door almost every night and is the smartest cat Ive ever seen or had she can shake sit and show me her foot on command. The vet refers to her as the smart cat.
I found her starving to death she was infected in the back and weighed 2.5 lbs and now she is 9lbs.

Good on you for taking her in and giving her a good home. I`m a dog person through and through, but NO animal should be made to needlessly suffer from neglect. I have no way of knowing for sure (yet), but I think (hope) God notices that kind of thing.

 

[Turkeytider]

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My cousin and his wife had a possum for a pet. It really was a good one.

 

[Calvin45]

 

[Rosebud]

We had a huge orange cat named Bob. His Christian name was William Robert, AKA, Billy Bob. He weighed 18 pounds at one point. When the new Vet asked what kind of cat I had we replied, "Alley"

 

[xsn10s]

We had a huge orange cat named Bob. His Christian name was William Robert, AKA, Billy Bob. He weighed 18 pounds at one point. When the new Vet asked what kind of cat I had we replied, "Alley"

We had an orange tabby that the vet put in big letters on his file "DANGEROUS CAT" lol.

 

[KyCarl]

Living in the country I don't care for cats at all! They kill lots of ground nesting birds I rank them with youts and shoot on sight!
one year I got 13 from one big hay field! for the last 5o years I have had Pit Bulls and they do a good job on cats coons possums groundhogs
meth heads. The best dogs ever! If they can catch it they can kill it! And the Quail love me!

 

[Weaver93]

Every time you see a dog on the side of the road watching traffic go by know there is a cat in the weeds behind him saying "go ahead, they'll stop for you".