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Which is a better pet - cat or dog?
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12-04-2010 10:39am#1What do you think?
I have a dog and therefore of course I think that dogs are simply the best
but my husband tries to talk mi into a cat. I would gladly take another dog, but cats don't seem...friendly, and, what is more, I am not sure if the pets would like each other... On the other hand, I've read an interesting artcile comparing cats and dogs, and it seems that cats have lots of advantages and in general it's easier to take care of them (http://www.petlvr.com/blog/2010/03/cats-or-dogs-that-is-the-question/). Any comments from cat owners?0
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Contrary to what is general opinion, cats are actually quite loyal and friendly (but obviously not in the hero worship way dogs are). We had a lovely cat for 11 years and it would always come running up to me whenever I got back from school and at weekends back from college. If anyone strange called round it would saunter off warily.
You can't beat a couple of kittens for pure madcap hilarity
I will say though that I'd see cats as more of an outdoors pet. I can never understand people who keep them locked away inside. Each to their own I suppose. 0 -
Dogs suck !! and should all be put down cos they are vicious and they bite young kids and defenceless old ladies
You have to own a cat before you know how loving they are. The only thing you can’t do is bring them for walks
other than that, I spend hours playing with Moo in the garden , in the house playing hide a seek, chasing, looking at tv with her on my lap etc.
And of course they know their name, She could be 15 houses away from me and I would call her name, next you will see a head popping up to make sure it is me and then she runs as fast as she can to meet me
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Maybe you should turn that skill into a professionhonerbright wrote: »I have a little harness for my cat and take her walking all the time
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Dogs suck !! and should all be put down cos they are vicious and they bite young kids and defenceless old ladies
You have to own a cat before you know how loving they are.
ooo that's fighting talk where i come from - luckily for you i've moved
so would a cat lay down it's life to protect you? ever heard of burgalars staying away from a house cos there's a cat living there? can a cat lick your face without ripping the skin off? can a cat safe peoples lifes lost in the wilderness?0 -
honerbright wrote: »I have a little harness for my cat and take her walking all the time
I bet you get some stares from passers by when walking your cat down on the Prom....I'd say you'd get some attention from the amount of dogs walking down there too!
I dunno, I've a soft spot for cats really. I think it takes cats a very long time to get used to people, and many I've come across certainly don't like anybody except their owners. This may be why people think cats are unfriendly. But, if you raise a cat from a kitten, you'll be converted!0 -
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ever heard of a cat doing thisFarmer Saved by Dog's Amazing 2 km Run
linkAn Austrian farmer's life was saved
by this clever pooch, "Tschibsi", who ran 2 km, found help and returned with a rescue helicopter. I don't think Lassie ever managed to do that.
(Photo: StavangerAvisen.com)
According to the authorities, Tschibsi ran almost 2 km (1¼ miles) to intercept the man's wife on her way into town riding a bicycle. By barking, yelping and whining, the dog communicated to the woman that something was horribly amiss. She followed Tschibsi back to the farm, found what had happened and telephoned rescuers.
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would a domestic cat do this?
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/04/boy.cougar.attack/index.htmlOne lucky boy in Canada can say without a doubt that he has his own personal guardian angel -- not of the spiritual kind, but of the furry.
On Saturday an 18-month old golden retriever saved her owner from being attacked by a cougar while in the backyard of their home in Boston Bar, British Columbia, about 130 miles north of Vancouver.
The dog -- named Angel -- leaped into action and threw herself between her owner, 11-year-old Austin Forman, and the cougar that was charging at him.
Sherri Forman, Austin's mother, said her son was outside with Angel around 5:30 p.m. gathering firewood from their backyard. She explained that Angel normally runs around and plays when she is outside, but on this afternoon she was behaving differently.
"He had come in at one point to tell me how cute Angel was being because she was sticking pretty close to him in the yard, which was unusual for her," Forman told CNN.
In hindsight she realizes that Angel was protecting her son from an unseen danger.
When the cougar charged, Angel ran to protect the boy.
"She intercepted the cougar," Forman said. "Austin came into the house very upset, and I had to get him to calm down so I could understand what he was saying. Finally he said 'there's a cougar eating Angel.'"
Angel and the cougar fought under the family's deck, while Austin's mother called 911 for help. A constable was in the area and able to make it to their home and kill the cougar quickly.
Austin Forman, left, was saved from a cougar attack by his 18-month old golden retriever, Angel.0 -
pa - my dog was Austrian not Austalian, i see your cat and raise you a retriever0 -
try this one without welling a tearPORT TAMPA, Fla. — Yolanda Segovia heard a knock on her door one morning, just before 8 a.m.
Her neighbor was on the porch, with a dog and a story.
Stacey Savige had found the little dog in front of an elementary school. He wasn't very big, looked like some sort of terrier. Burrs clung to his belly. His honey fur was caked in mud.
He didn't have a collar. Stacey had taken him to the vet and he didn't have a chip, either.
Now Stacey had to go to work. Could Yolanda keep him?
Yolanda is 47. She's a divorced mom with two boys. In recent years she has survived breast cancer and cervical cancer, lost her dark hair and eyelashes to chemo. A hairdresser, she hasn't worked since 2006.
"You can leave the dog here," Yolanda told Stacey. "But just for today."
They took photos of the dog and made a FOUND flier. Stacey ran off 4,000 color copies. She and Yolanda stuffed mailboxes, put ads on Craigslist.
Yolanda took her boys to the dollar store and bought a collar, leash, ball and brown bed. Her 10-year-old, Azaiah, decided to call the dog RaeLee, pronounced "Riley." He said he had heard it on TV. All afternoon, he walked the dog, threw the ball, laughed while the dog licked his face.
"Don't fall in love with him," Yolanda kept warning.
Her elder son, Christian, 21, watched through the window. Christian has Down syndrome and an array of other ailments. He has had heart surgery, a kidney transplant. He can't speak or bathe himself.
That night, when the boys climbed into their bunk beds, the dog dragged his new bed from Yolanda's living room, down the long hall, into their room.
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Four days later, they still had the dog. He was starting to answer to his new name.
He loved roughhousing with Azaiah, knew to be gentle with Christian. He almost never barked.
On Saturday, Azaiah went to his dad's house. Christian retreated to his room to watch a Barney video. The dog dozed beside him.
Yolanda had just stepped onto her porch to water the plants when the dog flung himself into the screen door, barking madly.
As she opened the door, the dog sprinted across the living room, into the boys' room.
Yolanda screamed. Christian was slumped over, his body writhing in a seizure, blood streaming from his nose and mouth.
The dog ran to the boy, still yelping. But as soon as Yolanda bent to cradle her son, the dog went silent.
"If he hadn't come to get me," Yolanda told Stacey later, "the neurologist said Christian would have choked on his own blood and died."
Since no one had claimed the dog, Yolanda decided to keep him.
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Stacey got a call the next morning. A man named Randy had recognized his lost dog and called the number on the flier.
Stacey sobbed. She had been working so hard to find the dog's owner. Now that he had found her, everything seemed wrong.
She quizzed the man to make sure the dog was really his: Is the dog fixed? What tricks does he do? The man answered things only an owner could. His name is Odie, the man said.
Randy Cliff, 34, is an unemployed plumber who lives six blocks from Yolanda with his wife, their four children and infant granddaughter. He said he had been searching for Odie for more than a week.
Stacey told him, "That dog saved my friend's son."
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When the van pulled up outside Yolanda's house, the dog raced out and jumped into Randy's arms. Randy buried his face in his dog's soft fur.
Azaiah stood on the porch, crying. "We're going to miss you," he called.
As Randy remembers it, he looked at the boy. He saw Christian's frightened face in the window. "Is that your brother?" he asked. Azaiah nodded.
Randy set the dog by Azaiah's feet.
"Maybe Odie was supposed to find you," Randy said. "Maybe you should keep him."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538724,00.html
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1. cant walk a cat? see Honerbrights post
2. My cat moo goes to the toilet outside, own little patch
3. dont wait for you at the door? Moo knows the sound of my engine when i come home so she runs to the back door and waits for me ( we used to have a sliding door but she still waits on the wrong place, so i hit her eveytime i open the door)
4. If i call Moo, she will come running to me and will brush up while she is getting a belly rub
5. ehh same as number 2, yer man is running out of points
6. I play hide and seek and chasing with her..he used to even play fetch with a rolled up ball of foil !!
dogs eat their on poo, nuff said :eek:
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