Which are best?

Cats:
1.- They're nice to you before you feed them.
2.- You just leave them alone and they take care of themselves.
3.- They're clean, look cute, do cute things.

Dogs:
1.- They're nice to you all the time.
2.- Require a fair amount of interaction, specially if you live in a city.
3.- They smell... they all have that dog smell.

If I lived outside a city, a dog would be the go. In a city cats rule.

Some people just have way to much FREE time on there hands!

tgladman said...
cats r sh! t.

Some cats rock... my cat growing up was the coolest cat ever.

He would sit at the table (on a chair), come when called, play fetch, hand wrestle, chase, he was polite, he never lost a fight with either dogs, cats or people we fed him mostly fresh fish and rabbit.
He wasn't 2 faced, he was loyal, he didn't like men sitting anywhere around him, but liked women.
He weighed 11kg, so he was huge for a cat
If I was on a desert island, I'd want him.

Our current cat was a little farker... took me 7 years to break him in. He's OK now. Doesn't hurt anything... like a roach could run past and he couldn't give a ....

Whereas my youth cat would go after everything dogs, birds, flies, people...

echunda said...
If we have mice.. don't feed cat for a few days. Mice gone

If there's birds eating my garden... don't feed cat for a few days. Birds gone.

... hmmm, now if only I could get mine interest in mosquitoes [}:)]

I have one of each. Covers all bases.

Had a litter of kittens in my backyard year ago.

The cat haven set traps and caught the lot,bar one.

It returned week or two later starving to death.

Would vomit up the food when i fed it initially.

Named it bones.

Soon it got healthy from all the delicious food.

So friendly,would sit on the cushioned chair outside basking in the sunshine.

Till i got home one day,it was laying dead on grass verge. Found out from other neighbour recently,it was another neighbours dog.

Buried it in backyard.

R.I.P

yes but,
cats make way better bait in my mud crab pots.

I think dogs are ok on an acre, but not really on a city block unless they're small yappy things and then they're a menace to the neighbors with all the mindless yapping. My neighbor put down awesome turf all around his house when he built it a year ago. Now you can't run around on his beautiful turf because there's lumps of poo scattered all around the place. Lumps of poo. This is normal to a dog owner. For anyone else, lumps of poo all around your house is a pretty disgusting concept. At least cats have the decency to bury it.

kiteboy dave said...
I think dogs are ok on an acre, but not really on a city block unless they're small yappy things and then they're a menace to the neighbors with all the mindless yapping. My neighbor put down awesome turf all around his house when he built it a year ago. Now you can't run around on his beautiful turf because there's lumps of poo scattered all around the place. Lumps of poo. This is normal to a dog owner. For anyone else, lumps of poo all around your house is a pretty disgusting concept. At least cats have the decency to bury it.

Responsible dog owners pick up the barker eggs. I've got a 6 year old black lab - moderate size house block, he does his business and I get rid of it each day., I don't fancy standing on dog turds. Most cat owners that I know think it's okay to let them out at night and are happy to let them crap anywhere, scratch the ** out of cars and kill wild life, and then come home for a dump in the tray of kitty litter in the laundry or bathroom.

Give me a dog any day.

Responsible dog owners keep their dogs silent too. I'm so glad our neighbors are like that. But I've lived in places where you can pick out 6 or 8 different dogs at night, just mindlessly repeating the same bark over and over and over for 3 or 4 hours at a time.

Hargs I think you're generalising or your friends are crap. I have had a dog in the past, at the moment I have 2 cats. They are in every night, have never scratched a car, poo'd in the neighbors yard, or killed anything larger than a gecko. They are welcome/encouraged to the geckos as they are an invading asian species. Aussie ones are silent by the way, if they make noise they're invaders.

Gizmo most people with small kids have a clamshell sandpit, 12 bucks at bunnings, you put sand in one side an a bit of water in the other on a hot day. Then you pour the water out (no mozzies) and turn it over and put the lid on the sand side. Keeps everything including cats out.

You are missing the point - the cat shouldn't be in the neighbours yard to begin with! I'm with Gizmo next cat i find in my yard would want to hope it can swim.

YOU are missing the point, it's a cat, does not give a damn about borders and rules... Human concepts do not apply to cats, note that if they like your yard it could be because they are mice or snake to chase... they might be doing you a service.

dafrog said...
Cats, only got to the toilet where they are unwelcomed... cat fact, cats rule.

So you would still love your neighbour even though he/she craps in and stinks up your
favourite flower bed on a daily or nightly basis??????????

One of my favourite books "101 Uses for a Dead Cat". The best use of course being crab pot bait.

The introduction of cats to Australia has been more devastating than that of rabbits, foxes, prickly pear or cane toads.

If you love trees, kill cats. Cats eat birds, birds eat aphids and aphids eat trees.

disagree with all the comments above... A cat as no boundaries, you cannot teach that to a cat, sorry but the way it is and please believe me that if a cat hangs about your garden it's that there is something there no matter how much attention you pay to it, cats are easily bored, would not stay there if nothing picked its curiosity... As for feral cats... well it's the fault of owners who abandon their animals... same with dogs whom then mix with dingos...

In the end dog people do not understand cats and vice versa, all I know is that no matter how well trained your dog is... if one starts to bark they all bark and that annoys the **** out of me.

cisco said...

dafrog said...
Cats, only got to the toilet where they are unwelcomed... cat fact, cats rule.

So you would still love your neighbour even though he/she craps in and stinks up your
favourite flower bed on a daily or nightly basis??????????

One of my favourite books "101 Uses for a Dead Cat". The best use of course being crab pot bait.

The introduction of cats to Australia has been more devastating than that of rabbits, foxes, prickly pear or cane toads.

If you love trees, kill cats. Cats eat birds, birds eat aphids and aphids eat trees.

Largest issue right now in Vic is feral dogs ripping everything apart .. FOR FUN. The pack leaves the animal with it's stomach hanging out to die then chases down it's next target.

yep..... dogs .. I aim for them if I see them on the road.

We have a sacraficial snake cat I bought it with the notion it will get bitten by a brown snake or alert us to one before the kids.
A couple of years ago late at night we had a knock at the door a young girl had ran over a big tom cat at the front of our house and was devastated. I told her I would look after it and she left, my wife and I went out and it quickly became apparent the cat needed to put out of its misery its eyeballs were hanging out etc Just as I delivered the final blow in the middle of the road a car came screaming around the corner stopped dead with its lights on me did a u_turn and took off must of looked like a scene from deliverance to the driver

Doggie, this is for you!!

Beware of the Dog

30 second "dog scene / dog skit"... Beware of the Dog... Begins just after the 9:50 mark in the movie. The two guys are brothers in the movie.