:D Okay, okay.

Never had to throw a boot party for a cat, whose owner couldn't control it.

I try to love both though.

That is just ingrained in rural America's thinking, due to dogs being good for hunters, they are thought of as "manly".

I don't have anything against dogs, they are just a pain in the ass to own. If you think about it, a cat is no less manly than a dog. A cat is independent, a dangerous carnivore coming from the lineage of Lions & Tigers. A cat you have to earn it's respect usually and doesn't follow you around all the time like a little kid. If anything, a dog is more like a little child and therefore a maternal instinct would yearn for that pet over a cat

Its a ruff thing to hear, but you wrong a cat once, you're sworn enemies. A dog you can beat on all day errday. One is admirable, one is respectable.

Ask any midwesterner who has outbuildings if they like their outdoor cats. You'll get a great big yes.

Ask any sane person if they want a box of animal shit in their home and they'll tell you no.

Is that actually a factor in people's decisions? I'd think that a main part of owning a pet and loving it is going out of your way not to physically abuse it, but that's just me. I'm an equal opportunity animal lover, but I've had fantastic luck with my cats so far.

IDK, I thought we were flexing manly animal opinions in here.

J/K, I love them both and like anything its dependent on the owner. If you're a real cool MF, dogs and cats will love you the same. I'd gladly hurt an owner, or otherwise shit human, over an animal any day...and it's a cat that taught me to be that way.

Anyone have a Bengal Cat? Thinking about getting one someday, but I'm afraid they will terrorize my house and go berserk if I leave them alone for a week. I've heard they can do that.

Agree to disagree ROFL

I don't mind the box of animal shit in my house. Just put it in a closet or the basement. They have good litter and odor repellent these days. I can usually tell when I go into someone's house if they have a dog, versus a cat. I can smell dogs easily. Unless they are groomed super often, they just have a stench to them, we all know the wet dog stench. My cat can sleep right by my face and I can't even smell that it is there.

Sure about that?

It is my sisters' cat. I don't have pictures. Big ass female pussy though. It jumps on top of bath room doors and sits there, watching while you shower.

Beautiful cat. Gray long hair and vocal. Nose to ass is about 3 feet, not including the tail. We have 4 cats. One inside, the rest outside (barn). All are Brindle with one black cat with green eyes.

Cats are crazy. Paula is the old inside cat (15 yrs) still steals my son's socks of the shelf in his closet, then yowls at them. Runs up and down the stairs and rumples the rugs as she tears out. Of course, when we first got her...that cat is on drugs. Thus her nickname is Drugs (she answers to it)

Next cat named Lisa is on drugs as well. Can't have 2 cats named the same, thus is Crack. The next cat is Simon, not. She nicknamed Spaz. Then the black cat is Cinder, not. Named Verruckt, crazy in German. All the cats answer to their nicknames, as much as a cat will answer to anything.

Dogs are just Bonnie and Clyde. Twin Shepard Husky mixes.

The cats and dogs cuddle together. Go figure.

I don't really understand how someone can sleep with a shedding animal. I love my dogs and cats, don't want their hair in my bed.

I slept at a friends house and their Boxer slept with me and kept pushing me off the bed. That didn't last long.

I guess it is what you are use to.

We have never given our animals a bath. Deutsch (big blond female retriever/lab)and Mr Frodo (male black pit/lab) went to the creek. They came back black with mud. Deutsch looked like a coon. The only blonde was around her eyes. The next day she and Mr Frodo were clean as a whistle. Thinking they groomed each other. Skunks, dead vermin, wet dog smell etc, next day are fine. Keep in mind they are primarily outside dogs (10 acres) so we don't have to endure the smell inside...just kick 'em out to go roam.

I didn't know this:

Nor this:

I thought the Tiger was?