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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:23 pm
by Red Squirrel
:lol: Ever watch a cat go in the litter? It's the funnyest thing to see them digging in there and berrying their crap. I did not really do on purpose to watch mine, I was cleaning it and just just decides to go anyway. :lol:

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:25 pm
by Stasi
sweetness wrote: cats... sly, devious and selfish
they are fantastic!
plus if i could lick my arse clean the way they can with such style i'd save a fortune on toilet paper after my early morning crapings
Ugh.... Oh, and missy, I do believe you need to have another 'p' in 'crapings'. Look if you want to spare yourself wiping, then just get yourself a colostomy. That way, your poo is more liquid and in a great condition for some offensive poo shenanigans to terrorize others.

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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:38 pm
by sintekk
Poo Shenanigans, eh? I'd like to see some of THOSE make the front page of the newspaper :lol:

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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:01 am
by Red Squirrel
Stasi wrote:
sweetness wrote: cats... sly, devious and selfish
they are fantastic!
plus if i could lick my arse clean the way they can with such style i'd save a fortune on toilet paper after my early morning crapings
Ugh.... Oh, and missy, I do believe you need to have another 'p' in 'crapings'. Look if you want to spare yourself wiping, then just get yourself a colostomy. That way, your poo is more liquid and in a great condition for some offensive poo shenanigans to terrorize others.

That's one of the positive sides of diarea, it wipes so nicely!

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:26 pm
by sweetness
i prefer the strong bold heave of a turd through my scented end... its just the cost of toilet paper that bugs me not the actual act.

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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:05 pm
by Shinizo
I shall vote for cats, cause no matter how hard I try to get away from them, more end up coming over to my house. (Currently have 13 cats) Plus, they have those big, evil eyes, and if you stare into them.. you're sucked into a black hole! Thus, you hafta feed them, clean them, ..water them like a chia pet, and watch them grow!

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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:42 pm
by Stasi
sweetness wrote: i prefer the strong bold heave of a turd through my scented end... its just the cost of toilet paper that bugs me not the actual act.
Yes, toilet paper is a problem, whether it's the cost or finding out you haven't got enough to get you through a particularly messy poo, thus necessitating the comparably coarse experience of paper towels from the kitchen.

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:14 am
by sweetness
newspaper is the worst!

tabloids, on the otherhand, are good and bad. Even although after one wipe they hit the pain barrier, just knowing that celebrities (i hate that concept) have my crap smeared on them gives me some satisfaction at least. ^_^



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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:13 pm
by Stasi
sweetness wrote: just knowing that celebrities (i hate that concept) have my crap smeared on them gives me some satisfaction at least.  ^_^
Ah yes, deified humans placed on a pedestal....

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:49 pm
by The Gheyness
Entries in a dog's journal:

8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!

9:40 am - OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE!

10:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!

11:30 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!

12:00 noon - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!

1:00 PM - OH BOY! THE YARD! MY FAVORITE!

1:30 PM - ooooooo. bath. bummer.

4:00 PM - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!

5:00 PM - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!

5:30 PM - OH BOY! MOM! MY FAVORITE!





Entries in a cat's journal:

DAY 752 - My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from ruining the occasional piece of furniture. Tomorrow I may eat another house plant.
DAY 761 - Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded, must try this at the top of the stairs. In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors, I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair...must try this on their bed.

DAY 765 - Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body, in attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear into their hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little cat I was...Hmmm. Not working according to plan.

DAY 768 - I am finally aware of how sadistic they are. For no good reason I was chosen for the water torture. This time, however, it included a burning foamy chemical called "shampoo." What sick minds could invent such a liquid? My only consolation is the piece of thumb still stuck between my teeth.

DAY 771 - There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in solitary throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise. More importantly I overheard that my confinement was due to MY power of "allergies." Must learn what this is and how to use it to my advantage.

DAY 774 - I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and maybe snitches. The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit. The bird, on the other hand, has got to be an informant, and speaks with them regularly. I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his current placement in the metal room his safety is assured. But I can wait; it is only a matter of time......


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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:43 pm
by Clueless
haha, thats funny. i voted cats!!!

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:08 pm
by Shinizo
That's my cat for you, except she'll eat roaches, and bring us mice. She needs her own theme song when she walks around.

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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:09 pm
by Red Squirrel
Haha nice, that's my cat. :D

Tries to trip us all the time lol. She also pulls off the matrix on the back of the couch while heading downstairs.

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:54 pm
by Shinizo
Dodging bug bullets?

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:40 am
by The Gheyness
When she's ready...she won't have to.

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:34 am
by 000
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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:23 am
by Jack Potato
dogs. cat's cant be trained too easily...i hate mean cats, but when i can trust a cat they are awesome.

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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:07 am
by Cereal_Killer
This is my pet skink, hasselhoff. Eats Dog food and salad, plus the occasional snail or cricket. About 45cm long, perfectly tame, and completely friendly. Beats dogs or cats any day.

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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:27 pm
by Jack Potato
i always thought skink was atrm for a sneaky or dishonest person. not a lizard. :mellow:

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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:28 pm
by Cereal_Killer
Dunno, its not a term used in the UK.

That's an australian blue tongued skink though, it has a really bright blue tongue that flicks out all the time.

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:05 pm
by Jack Potato
COOL.

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:53 am
by Colly Lord
Bookworm wrote: I can't believe that dogs are losing.
I can't believe it either! I've had both cats and dogs and the cats were much higher maintenance and did scads more damage around the house. And the dogs didn't need a litter box (cats don't obey fences.) I've only known one cat owner who managed to train her cats to walk on a lease. Smell? Our dogs don't smell even when they do get wet and when we go to estate sales, if the previous owners had cats, you can frequently tell by the smell, but not if they had dogs. Yes, we pick up after the dogs, what, twice a day? And if we skip a day (picking up in the yard), the house doesn't start to stink and dogs don't start going potty elsewhere in the house. But, wow, if you ever forget that litter box - whew! Stink and rapidly de-trained cats result almost immediately.

Cats are for people who don't really don't want to be bothered much by their pets. Instead of walking them and getting some fresh air and exercise themselves (dogs help encourage healthy exercise in their owners), most of our neighbors who have cats, just let them roam loose around the neighborhood. We can't leave our garage door partly open on hot days, because the one time we did, a stray cat came in and pissed on things.

The only really affectionate cats I've known were Abyssinians and they belonged to a friend of ours, but would cuddle up to anyone - probably even burglars. Very soft, admittedly, but you only have to pet the right places (ears and under throat) to find just-as-soft fur in many dogs.

Our dogs PLAY with us - the cats idea of "play" is "wiggle something at me so I can stalk and pounce on it. I'm a hunter!" Try to get a cat to play fetch with tennis ball. I've even taught both our dogs the phrase "in my hand" so I don't have to pick the ball up off the ground. Bending over as many times as the dog wants to fetch can get a little rough on the back. Sometimes I just lie in the hammock and let them drop the ball into it where it rolls down to my hand and I can toss it easily again. Hey! I've got a right to relax a little after walking the dog, right?

Make you feel needed? All the cats I've known, and most owners, admit that their cats seem to do just fine for brief or extended baseness. None of that mushy, dog style jumping, kissing greeting when you get back from a 10 minute trip to the corner market. If you're lucky, a cat might open one eye from it's napping and vaguely note that you've returned. The affection-attention-addicted dogs make you feel WANTED when you get home.

Our dogs follow us from room to room, never satisfied to be isolated from us. If we want to nap, they're happy to nap. If we want to road a book, they want us to play fetch. (OOPS - OK, maybe our dogs are also al little TOO attention addicted sometimes.)

My Dad used to say cats were sneaky. Well, heck, it's not their fault their claws retract, but on hardwood floors, you can hear the dog approaching (click, click click), but not the cat. Speaking of claws, I never caught our dog climbing to the top of the living room draperies. The cat, yes, the dog, no. Also, the dog has never gotten up on counters, table tops or other human work surface areas. My dog also never slept on top of my PC monitor and shorted it out with shed fur, like my cat did, either.

In the post with the kitten picture - that was unfair! Kittens are undeniably extremely cute and cuddly. Their only fault is that they always grow up to be cats. Dogs on the other hand, well, some dogs will act like their puppies until they get old and gray and can't run anymore.

House breaking: Our dogs, once housebroken, stayed that way. Our cats, litter trained or not, they'd sometimes still decide to sneak a leak (or furball) behind the sofa. When we pulled up the carpets to get new ones, we found out just what our cat REALLY thought of the litter box. Sneaky cat would always poop in the litter box, but then pee anywhere it felt like, apparently. (hahahaha - I gave that house to my first wife in the divorce 10 years ago, so I didn't have t to deal with the cat damage.) At least when dogs have their "accidents" (however rarely), they have the decency to act ashamed about it. You KNOW when you're dog has done a "bad potty" and the dog does too. The cat really doesn't give a damn what you think about where it went. Have you EVER seen a cat try to look like it's saying "I'm sorry"? I doubt it.

Yes, dogs chew things. We got them enough toys and keep my socks off the floor and the problem is gone. Keeping things off the floor doesn't keep them away from cats though. I've seen one leap from the floor, straight up 7δ½ and a half feet to the top of the kitchen cabinets in a single leap.

Protection: Yeah, our dogs would bark lots if someone entered the house. Probably also knock them down so they could lick them silly with greetings. We can get them to "stay" and behave when we have invited visitors, though. How do your cats behave? What would they do if a burglar entered the house? Do you think the cat would feel any interest in protecting it's owner? Of course not. Cats aren't pack animals and you may be their lunch ticket, janitor, and groomer, but you are NOT their pack leader, whom they might follow, obey, and defend.

Usefulness: No such thing as seeing-eye cats, is there? Or service cats to help carry things? Guard cats? hahaha - not unless you own an exotic larger breed, maybe. If some stranger opens the outside door, most cats will either hide, or scoot out the door, never to be seen again. Has anyone trained their cat to fetch their slippers or newspaper? OK, I do recall seeing a cat trained to use a toilet and flush. Besides, the properly trained toilet-using cat was on a show called "Amazing Animals" - not a show called "Normal Animals". If you spill food on the dining room floor, does the cat come to clean it up? Or does the dog get there first and do a better job of it?

OK, so yes, cats are cute, cuddly, and due mainly to their body size, produce less poop than dogs. But they're essentially useless, except for possibly emotional companionship - if you can call their roommate style aloofness "companionable" OK, maybe I used to have a cat that slept curled on my shoulder near my ear at night, but I think she did it mainly for the warmth.

I also sometimes wonder exactly how much cat owners "love" their pets - and here I'm referring to those cat owners - you know who you are - who let their 'beloved's' outside completely unsupervised, to "do their business' in other people's yards, in other people's children's sand boxes and play lots, to trespass through the neighborhood, teasing all the dogs who're trying to take their guarding duties seriously. Really now, the "free spirit" crap is going too far - unless you really don't care if some car in the night "frees" the "spirit" of your cat from its body with a horrifying (to both driver and cat) squish. Cats do NOT recognize fences as barriers. If you love your cat, leash it or keep it inside. Don't give me any of that "free spirit" b.s. I've seen too many road kill felines. Ditto about caring for your animals goes to the idiot dog owners who carry their dogs around loose or improperly leashed in the back of an open pickup truck at 70 miles an hour down the freeway. I've seen dogs in large dog crates, secured in the back of a pickup - score one for that owner. I've also seen one dog leashed to the center, front of the pickup bed with the passenger keeping a close eye on the dog. The leash was rigged to NOT reach the side of the pickup bed. Score one for that owner, too. We keep our dogs inside our care, secured in the back seat with proper doggy-seat belts. I've seen dogs, unrestrained, fall out of pickup trucks - fortunately uninjured that time. I've also seen dogs carelessly leashed to the SIDES of the pickup bed. Do these people not realize the dog will be hanged by the neck if it falls out? None of this probably concerns cat owners - I don't think most people's cats go on car rides except to the vet and they probably hate those trips in the cat carrier - Though I do recall the one Internet photo of the motorcyclist with his cat riding on his shoulder with its own mini-helmet.

My dogs have never pooped in anybody else's yard and do not run around unsupervised except in our own fenced-in back yard or in the house. That's not true of 90% of the cats in our neighborhood, all of whom, I'm sure have visited our property at one time or another. I'm especially minded of the one that managed to stand on top of our fence and pee on the side of our house wall at a spot 5 feet off the ground, just so we could be sure to notice the yellow stinky stain. And don't even TRY to convince me that some DOG could've peed on a house 5 feet up the wall.

Sharing the bed: OK - hmm, yeah, two cats sharing the bed would still leave more space than our 37 and 48 pound dogs sharing the same bed. We let the dogs snuggle for the first half hour and then we tell them "Go to bed now" and they both get off and go to their individual beds. Which reminds me... Language...

Language: I've never owned or known any cats that even pretended to know more than their own name and the sound of a can opener. Our dogs, on the other hand... Whew! Our first dog has a collection of over 30 unique stuffed toys and you can ask her to bring any particular toy by name, and she will bring you THAT toy and no other. She's 6 years old now. She also taught us that she knew "Mat!" when we first got her as a puppy. She'd go to her "mat" or any particular towel that we laid on the floor and pointed to and named "mat". There she would sit, proudly posed, with an expectant look on her face. It's been so handy a trick that we had her teach the other dog the same "trick". Now, if we want them to behave and sit still for a minute, or get away from the kitchen when we open the oven, we just say "Mat!" and off they go, each to their own mat. Of course, now they get "rewards" of perhaps a kibble or two of dog food to keep it reinforced, but the mat trick really comes in handy for emergencies, too. Like when the older dog, maybe gets something in her throat and has to cough up a bit of spittle, if we hear her start coughing, we say "Mat!" and she runs to cough it up on her mat - which we can just toss in the washing machine and saves us cleaning the carpet. Have any of you cat owners taught their cats where to cough up hairballs for convenient cleaning? I wonder.
Our dogs, of course, also know the common dog-loved phrases such as "Who wants to go on a car ride?" (or simply "car" if you want the key word), and "doggy dinner time" (entire phrase - they know the word "dinner" is meaningless to them unless it has "doggy" in front of it.) They can also tell time. Both our dogs know that 6:30 is when to get me up - and they do so with a polite rapid ear-flapping - no crude barking. After all, they don't want to wake my wife, too (I got remarried in 1997 and been happy every day since.) They also know that "doggy dinner time" is at 5pm - not 4:30 or even 4:45. They will come "fetch" us at 5pm if we aren't already getting their dinner ready. The cat I had, so long ago, thought I wanted 4am wake-up calls. harumph! Our dogs also keep a reasonable bed-time - 10pm and will come into the room with us, get our attention, and then go to the master bed to warm it up for us.

Socializing: People got to dog parks and meet with other people and their dogs. I haven't seen the new movie, "Must love dogs', but I wonder if it's about that. I've never heard of any "cat parks" where people go to meet other cat owners. Maybe cat shows, where they go to show off their fancy breed cats, but we never went to those when we had our two tabbies (which are listed in the book as "Tabby - While not a recognized breed, Tabbies are perhaps the most numerous..." phaugh! even cat fanciers can be as snobbish as cats.) I just never see any cat owners getting together with other cat owners to go out on walks together. Maybe it happens somewhere, but I've never seen it. As I say elsewhere in this post, I've only met one owner of leash trained cats.

For the people still unsure why cats seem to be winning this poll (at this time), go rent the movie "Cats & Dogs". And for the few owners of Abyssinian's and maybe some other breed of cat that mimics the affection of a dog - enjoy your pet, you lucky people. There is nothing more disappointing to a family than to bring home a cute kitten that they feed, litter train, and play generously and carefully with, only to have it grow up into a cat that doesn't want to socialize. Of the two cats we had before the marriage ended, one would let you hold it in your lap and pet it for a while. The other one was only interested in coming near if you just fixed a bowl of ice cream and it wanted to help you eat it. They were both very soft though.

And if the cats eventually win the poll and the dogs appear to lose, it'll be because the dogs don't mind. They still have their humans and that's more important than any poll. For that matter, I also don't care if the cats win. I've gotten quite relaxed about it after all this venting. ;) I've had some cute cats, but I've never had any pets as obviously affectionate as our dogs.

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I hope this post under "debates and heated discussions" was sufficiently on-topic and amusing enough reading for both dog and cat owners. Arguing which pet is "best" is about as pointless as arguing whether Windows PCs are better than MAC's or vice versa. Each pet (or PC) will be chosen to suit the desires of its owners and the one that is "best" is the one that owner is happiest with. I just happen to be happier with dogs (and Windows PCs).


(hmm - I wonder if MAC owners prefer cats? I wouldn't be at all surprised.)

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Cats vs Dogs

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:16 am
by OLKMED
eeww

i voted for dogs, but here's a plus for cats

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/cutebirdy.html

(disturbing but cool)

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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:17 am
by Colly Lord
Also, more people are allergic to cats than dogs because what they're actually allergic to is not the fur, which both have, but the proteins from the cat's saliva that dries up in its fur and then disperses the protein molecules in the air. Dogs aren't constantly licking all the fur all over their body.

Someone complained about dog slobber. Well, the particular breed of dogs we chose don't slobber or drool. And human mouths, dog-butt licking aside, probably have more and nastier bacteria in them than the dogs mouths. In fact, our dogs have better breath than most humans I know, but then we don't feed them Cokes and junk food either. No, it's definitely not sanitary, but at least the dogs tongue doesn't feel like high grit sand paper, either. And I know just as many people who "share" their ice cream cones with their cats - same germs. After all, don't cats walk in their litter boxes and then lick their paws clean, too? And I've never heard of dog-scratch fever. Cat scratches are way more serious infection risks than a few dog kisses because they break the skin and get the germs immediately into the bloodstream. Of course, if you love someone, human or animal, in the same house, you're probably all sharing the same germs one way or another anyway. If you're that worried about germs, you probably shouldn't own pets (or have kids.)

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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:31 am
by OLKMED
(hmm - I wonder if MAC owners prefer cats? I wouldn't be at all surprised.)
hahah i bet you're right too, some cats (not most) but some can learn to hunt and rid your house of pests. none of mine have been able to do that but i've seen one that is amazing at that, too bad he's also the fiestiest cat i've ever come in contact with.

I really like dogs, i haven't had as much luck as i had hoped training the dog i have now but even though she is old she is still making progress, and she's learned enough to make me happy.

My dog does get smelly though....Colly Lord, what kind of dogs do you have? and is there any trick to making them stay clean?

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