[Dark Hunter]

Cats >> dogs

Graceful, cute, cuddly, clean, and more importantly, quiet. Dogs are dirty, loud, relatively clumsy, and obnoxious. It's also much easier to give a cat attention since they can sleep on your lap or chest while you're doing work on the computer or watching tv. Also unlike dogs cats sleep most of the day by default, which makes them far less demanding. 

Pretty much word-for-word what I would have said.

My family has owned several examples of cats and dogs, and I have never ever liked the dogs. If they like you, they're irritating pests who won't leave you alone. If they don't like you, they're smelly disgusting creatures that just make messes that you then have to clean up.

[Snail]

I like them both!

[Hades]

As do I. :\

I have 7 cats and 3 dogs.

[StarSlayer]

I do love the various Grumman bred cats.

[Ravenholme]

As do I. :\

I have 7 cats and 3 dogs.

I like them both, I just prefer dogs by a rather large margin.

[iamzack]

Cats are infinitely easier to take care of. If you let our dog and cat loose in the woods, the cat would probably do fine as long as she could avoid larger predators. The dog would probably lay down and starve to death, stupid beast that it is. Dogs are such dumb animals. Replace them with robots, robots don't bite when you try to wash them.

[Titan]

How the hell are cats companions? They avoid all day until the need you, then go away again.

And more importantly, my neighbours buy them, and then let them outside to use our sandbox as their toilet.

[General Battuta]

How the hell are cats companions? They avoid all day until the need you, then go away again.

And more importantly, my neighbours buy them, and then let them outside to use our sandbox as their toilet.

truly the cat is a mighty beast, with all the prerogatives of royalty

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Yea I really wish I could shoot the owners that let them out but unfortunately that's not legal and none of them would ever own up to owning one anyway.  If they did I could file for damages under the law.  Until then thankfully cats are classified as farm animals ans not pets here so I have the legal right to do anything up to killing them to keep them from damaging my property.

On the other hand if I could have a pet it would probably be a cat for the reasons just stated.  They are independent.  It would also never leave the house unless on a leash or in a carrier.

[iamzack]

How the hell are cats companions? They avoid all day until the need you, then go away again.

my kitten hasn't let me out of her sight since I came back from college. she pretends like she's not following me around, and it's adorable

[mister J]

both are cute, but I've lived with dogs for a huge chunk of my childhood so my vote's going to them.

Wait. No choice for pet Shivan? 

[Hades]

Not all dogs are stupid, iamzack. My dad had this really smart lab, good dog. Memorized all sorts of phrases and what they meant. He died of cancer a couple of years ago.

[Rodo]

OMFG! It's a frikking kitty loving convention!

Tell me, is your cat gonna warn the rescue teams when you are below two tons of debris?

NO, he's just gonna lick his pawns looking at the hole mess from the roof of your neighbour.

Give me a break, the only kitties I love are the ones that are not furry at all

[Scotty]

Tell me, is your cat gonna warn the rescue teams when you are below two tons of debris?

Tell me, how many types of dogs are likely to do that as well?

And, interestingly enough, I have no doubt that at least one of ours would (aside from the fact that if I'm trapped in two tons of debris, it's my own damn fault and I'll probably be dead anyway.

[Colonol Dekker]

Not only are cats useless, they're an anagram of scat. Which we all know is bad.
 
Cats utilise apparant cuteness to appeal to some innate need to care for non-contributory members of a species who's only purpose in life is to spray cat fluids over everything you own.
 
Cats smell.
Cats don't have any ability to learn.
Cats smell.
Cats would rather lick themselves than defend the home.
Cats smell.
 
Dogs are smarter than a cat will ever be, there is no argument for cats being smart because their owners are too stupid to realise they're being used.
 
Cats smell.

[Nuke]

LIES!!!

[NGTM-1R]

Cats don't have any ability to learn.

You've never actually been in the same household as a cat, have you?

[Mongoose]

I've never owned either a dog or a cat, and I can't see myself ever doing so (allergic to dogs, and most likely to cats), so Snuffleupagus it is.  Besides, I generally prefer animals under my care to possess the capabilities of rational thought and speech, or at least the ability to develop such capabilities.

[Angelus]

Not only are cats useless, they're an anagram of scat. Which we all know is bad.
 
Cats utilise apparant cuteness to appeal to some innate need to care for non-contributory members of a species who's only purpose in life is to spray cat fluids over everything you own.
 
Cats smell.
Cats don't have any ability to learn.
Cats smell.
Cats would rather lick themselves than defend the home.
Cats smell.
 
Dogs are smarter than a cat will ever be, there is no argument for cats being smart because their owners are too stupid to realise they're being used.
 
Cats smell.

Well, if a house start to smell like Cat, it'd be time to clean up the litterbox.

Cats do learn, they are intelligent and strongwilled enough not to do stunts like a dog would (although there are exceptions).
A dog treats his owner as "boss", a cat treats you as equal in best case and as underling in all other cases.
The cats the ruler, the human's the subject.
And as Ruler, you don't defend home, you have minions that do that. 


ALL HAIL THE EMPEROR OF CATKIND!!! 

[S-99]

I don't like the situation i'm in. The last dog we had was an alaskan husky/wolf mix. Very self sufficient and smart dog. My family owns an island out in the middle of the ocean we used to live on until i was 14. We just let the dog go free, no collar or anything. She loved it. Then we moved to interior rural alaska, and i didn't know what to do. So i let her go free one day. Living here for 7 years before she died, she made many human friends, and just did her own thing all around this small town. She'd let you  know when she wanted out, in, what she wanted, was playful, performed some guard dog roles, you could take her hunting with you (she'd tease the animal you wanted and keep it distracted so you could pull off a shot (good things like bears and moose)). During summer was interesting, she'd never want to go back in the house, unless winter came. She died at the age of 18, by getting backed over by my mom's friend in the drive way at 5mph. She just happened to choose a bad place to nap in the drive way and she was pretty deaf at the time too.

Never could own a dog after my family's first one again. Normal dogs are too needy, too dependent on you. Then the nightmare, my brother got a new dog finally. Very loving dog, another huskey so it's hyper as ****, playful, and too loyal. Too much attention, i tried letting her go free for a couple of weeks, but people complained. So now i feel bad for the dog because she's on the runner most of the day since she's a bad dog if i let her go free, and i don't have much time to walk her.

Nightmare situation since my brother moved to japan, looking for a family to take the dog, if no family, i have to take her. No, i'll take a cat, i much like them better. Also, my family got lucky scoring such an awesome dog in the first place for the first dog we ever owned.

Again i feel bad for this dog i might end up with because i can't give it all the time and attention it needs. And unless you have a lot of land for the dog to actually be able to do it's own thing, then it's not worth it for the dog just to leave them in the backyard, on a runner, or on a leash walking them down the same ****ing street corner every day (not really a great life for the dog in my head).

Long post, that's my thoughts, i get along with cats much better (want to get a lynx, bobcat, or maine coon)