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Cats have servants

Dogs have masters

 

I don't like being a servant. Why do you think I chose the Light?

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cats make you like it. it's a fair exchange for the purring and snuggling. and rodent control.

 

Dogs snuggle too, and they come comfort you if you feel bad.

And we don't have rodents around here.

Cats are solitary animals while dogs are not, though. That's where most of the difference comes from.

 

Also, sleep well.

I used to quite like cats, and then I moved to a place where I did not have a cat - but all of the neighbours did. Or at least it seemed that way.

 

My boys couldn't just go out and play, because our garden was the whole cat society's toilet. I had to go out each morning and collect it all up. It was disgusting. I tried all the things you try to make them stay out - but they would not.

 

And I grew to hate them - because they made my life a misery.

 

There's a big white fluffy one that lives nearby my new house, and thankfully it doesn't class my yard as being its loo.

 

But I won't be having much soft landscaping when I get round to getting the garden done next year - just in case.

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oh ya that's right outdoor cats are the norm there cause of the lack of big predators or something?

 

I don't ever let my babies outside.

I used to quite like cats, and then I moved to a place where I did not have a cat - but all of the neighbours did. Or at least it seemed that way.

 

My boys couldn't just go out and play, because our garden was the whole cat society's toilet. I had to go out each morning and collect it all up. It was disgusting. I tried all the things you try to make them stay out - but they would not.

 

And I grew to hate them - because they made my life a misery.

 

There's a big white fluffy one that lives nearby my new house, and thankfully it doesn't class my yard as being its loo.

 

But I won't be having much soft landscaping when I get round to getting the garden done next year - just in case.

 

True. Cats do that everywhere except in their own garden.

I prefer cats. Not that I don´t like dogs but they are too much work. I would never have the energy to walk a dog several times a day.

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not all netherlanders are good people. not all dogs are friendly. not all

monkeys fling... ok, they do, but you see where I'm going w this ya

*Dutch, actually. Not Netherlanders.

 

And yeah, I see, but in my experience, cats consider the neighbour's gardens their toilet while they only come home to eat, while dogs want to sit on your lap (or put their head on your lap if they're too large, like our dog) and like playing with us humans, for example trying to run the fastest or a game of fetch (I believe it's called?).

I think the disconnect is between inside house cats which are more common in the US, and outside visiting the house cats which seems to be the European standard.

 

US housecats when trained properly basically ONLY go in their litterbox. so they are free to wander about everywhere else. Plotting their coup.

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ya they don't even have to be trained. you show a kitten a litter box and they know that's where they go.

 

when I was very young there were more outdoor cats, and they'd roam and sometimes swipe good wrapped meat left defrosting on windowsills but nowadays it's mostly very rural folk who let cats wander. an outdoor cat lives, on average, 4 years, and an indoor one more like 16-20 so...

 

but yes, they will use the interwebz to prepare the world for their dominion before getting more servile animals and humans to do the hard work.

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