Cats or Dogs?

[modeltrains]

Cleopatra is keeping a keen eye on this thread.

Hi Cleopatra, how are you?

Ya know, the mottling pattern on her skin would make a great camouflage pattern for miniatures for sci-fi games.
If I still did those I'd use it.

 

[HASTE]

Sphynx are amazing cats. Personality plus, and very smoochy. More like a dog personality in some ways.

They area really different to normal cats. We have found a few people can't even bear to pat her. Interestingly, it took me two years to figure out I didn't have to pat her from head to toe. I can pat her upways, downways, sideways, and it doesn't matter .

Its still a cat.

 

[RobertH3]

Dogs eat rockets, cats don't. Not true! Until last year, I didn't think that a cat would. When it is very cold, I put our barn cats up in my workshop at night. One night at app. 0 degrees I could only find the black and white and put him up by himself. He chewed up my hand-built Interceptor and my 1990's Broadsword (24mm Bertha). You just have to say it's like your favorite pair of shoes the dog got. The Interceptor looks like it was raked with 30mm fire from an A-10 and is sadly unfixable - no way with all the decals installed and clear-coat...
Broadsword is under it's fourth repair and survived the cat attack.



Cheers / Robert

 

[HASTE]

On a side note when I go out hunting the dogs are next to me, nearly all the cats are in front of me.
The decimation of Australian wildlife is down to 2 , Cats and foxes.

 

[OverTheTop]

The decimation of Australian wildlife is down to 2 , Cats and foxes.

Agreed. That's why I shoot ferals.

 

[Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech]

Thank you all who supported and voted dogs in this neck to neck no ending no concluding poll. We were losing and now we're winning just by a hair

 

[swatkat]

Thank you all who supported and voted dogs in this neck to neck no ending no concluding poll. We were losing and now we're winning just by a hair

shills.

 

[Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech]

shills.

More like cat supporters were dominating the thread about how much better cats were while our side was raking up votes muhahahahha

 

[OverTheTop]

The dog owners are woking on their witty, timely replies .

 

[Event Horizon]

LOL, cat haters blame everything on the wrong critter. It's so obvious to see that, just read their responses, that's proof enough. LOL

 

[Antares JS]

I have a major, unapologetic prejudice against cats because of numerous bad experiences with strays and crappy neighbors letting their cats roam around outdoors. They pee and poop all over my porch and kill the birds my wife tries to attract with feeders. They are also apparently really damaging to ecosystems when left to their own devices.

I tolerate only indoor cats. If you're the kind of person who lets his cats roam around outdoors during the day, you're an inconsiderate jerk and need to keep your cats on your property.

 

[boatgeek]

I have both cats and dogs. A really funny thing about this thread is the partisans on both sides complaining about behaviors that both cats and dogs do. Both kinds of our pets have drunk out of the toilet. Both have pooped or peed in inappropriate places, virtually always due to humans neglecting their needs. Both have horked on or under the bed. Both have either killed or tried to kill wildlife they shouldn't. Both have been pigheaded in various ways or extremely loving in others. Both have drawn blood when provoked. [edit] Both have left fur all over the house and clothes. [/edit]

Both kinds have been extremely affectionate and good company.

So yeah, it's personal preferences not an inherent superiority of one or the other.

 

[Peartree]

As a side note to an earlier complaint about cat hair getting on clothes, as life-long pet owners, dogs and cats, we've simply opted out of purchasing any clothing that tends to be a "fur magnet." While all clothing will retain some fur, certain fabrics are notoriously bad about it (eg. fleece). Although we like some of those fabrics, going pet-less is just not an option, so we choose instead to refrain from buying clothing that makes the problem worse. As many pet owners have said before, "No outfit is complete if it doesn't have fur on it somewhere."

 

[beeblebrox]

Always remember, Dogs have masters, Cats are masters...

But, this cat's name is "Dog"

 

[Event Horizon]

Many years ago one of my nieces accompanied her father on a trip to Japan. Her father is a veterinarian who specializes in bovine dairy and educating dairy farmers. He knows a lot of Japanese dairy farmers. Sometime later my niece acquired a male malamute. She name it Neko. A year or two later a bunch of Japanese kids who are offspring of the farmers came to visit the USA and stay at their lake house, camping in the yard, because they wanted to. They howled with laughter when they asked the dogs name and were told Neko. Neko in Japanese is cat.

 

[swatkat]

The dog owners are woking on their witty, timely replies .

And we are still waiting... it's a good thing cat owners are patient!

 

[Steven]

Always remember, Dogs have masters, Cats are masters...

But, this cat's name is "Dog"

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So who is the master, the one throwing the ball, or the one who makes you throw the ball?

 

[OverTheTop]

One of our current cats chases the tennis ball and brings it back to us.

But, this cat's name is "Dog"

One of our previous Devon Rex cats was called Mis (pronounced Mish), which is Croatian for mouse.

 

[Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech]

Many years ago one of my nieces accompanied her father on a trip to Japan. Her father is a veterinarian who specializes in bovine dairy and educating dairy farmers. He knows a lot of Japanese dairy farmers. Sometime later my niece acquired a male malamute. She name it Neko. A year or two later a bunch of Japanese kids who are offspring of the farmers came to visit the USA and stay at their lake house, camping in the yard, because they wanted to. They howled with laughter when they asked the dogs name and were told Neko. Neko in Japanese is cat.

 

[Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech]

And we are still waiting... it's a good thing cat owners are patient!

Nah we can wait even longer, it's a good thing dog owners are even more pateint

 

[Senior Space Cadet]

I was my dad's caregiver and he left me with several cats.
I love them like my children and can't understand people that hate cats.
Growing up, we usually had a dog, and I love dogs. Except the ankle biters.
And I'm not thrilled when some farm dog comes tearing out at me while I'm having a nice bike ride in the country.
I love anything that loves me.

 

[Greg Furtman]

As a person who's been around cats all my life, I still can't get used to a nekkid cat. I like the idea of less hair flying around the house tho...
And I would assume that there's no hairballs coughed up with these cats? They look like you crossed a Shar Pei with Yoda

I friend of mine has Chinese Crested dogs. They are nekkid too except for the top of their head and ears. And she lives in northern Wisconsin like I do so she has to put doggie jackets & booties on the, during the winter to go outside & do thei jobs. I have 2 Husky Somethings & they love the cold.

 

[Speaknoevil]

I friend of mine has Chinese Crested dogs. They are nekkid too except for the top of their head and ears. And she lives in northern Wisconsin like I do so she has to put doggie jackets & booties on the, during the winter to go outside & do thei jobs. I have 2 Husky Somethings & they love the cold.

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Looks like something out of a Dr. Suess book!

 

[Greg Furtman]

Looks like something out of a Dr. Suess book!

@Speaknoevil I call my older female dog a Suess Footed Husky for obvious reasons.

 

[swatkat]

Nah we can wait even longer, it's a good thing dog owners are even more pateint

Please point me to a patient dog. Even my old hunting dog Peggy Sue could only handle about 10 seconds of "stay" when food was on the line.

 

[heada]

I had a golden who would refuse to eat unless I was also eating. I wouldn't feed him anything but dog food but if it was dinner time, he'd look at me and whine until I started eating dinner and then he would too. If I had eaten out, I'd have to stand near him and pretend to eat something just so he wouldn't go hungry. I have a fenced in back yard and he got out once and I came home to him sleeping on the front porch and a note on the door from my neighbor. Note said "Shadow (dog's name) got out but is only sitting on the porch and watching people. I tried to catch him but he ran out to the yard and then back to the porch." 2nd smartest dog I've ever had. When I was younger, I raised my parent's Irish Setter. My 4 year old niece came over and was playing in the yard. After about 10 minutes, we all started hearing Val (dog's name) barking from a few houses down. She'd run out to the street, bark 4 or 5 times, run to the back of the houses for 15 seconds or so and then back out to the street. Turns out my niece wondered off along the creek that runs behind all the houses and Val was watching her and trying to tell all of us to come get her. After that, they'd go for "walks" Dog was a foot taller than she was and twice the weight but the leash never went tight when they walked down the street and back. That's the smartest dog I've known.

There are smart cats and cats that can be trained but nothing that compares to what a dog can do. Once I get a few acres and a lake, I'm gonna get a pair of Newfies. A dog that can be confused with a bear that loves to swim. What's not to like?

 

[boatgeek]

The shih tzu we inherited from my wife's uncle is also weird about food. When we first got her, everything was pretty normal. Something shifted though, and she won't eat food out of a bowl now. We have to pour it out in a mat. A year or two ago, I decided this was just nuts and she would surely eat out a bowl if she got hungry enough. So I put food in the bowl and waited. Four days later, I caved and poured out the food so she'd eat. Dang that dog is stubborn.

 

[swatkat]

This...

 

[swatkat]

And clever with Dominoes

 

[Yukon@K-9 Rocket Tech]