I voted both. I'm not choosing one or the other.
we had dogs in our family from a very early age, and my mum's now on her fifth. my brother's on his third dog and my auntie's & cousins have had about three others I can think of. so that's eleven family members who were canines. it's safe to say that nearly all of my life, I've been a 'doggie person'.
however, I am now the co-owner of two cats. I didn't use to rate cats much and thought they were a bit arseholeish compared to dogs, but that's not the case at all. I totally get cats now.
you can take a dog down the beach and throw sticks for it, and you will always get bored first. a dog fucking loves pretty much everything, it doesn't matter what it is, it'll agree with you. you could show him an empty fag packet and he would be delighted, saying 'that's amazing! and so interesting! and I fucking love you! what are we gonna do next?!'
a cat would roll its eyes and say 'aye, what's your point? fuck you. either throw it somewhere for me to catch, or FEED ME. preferably FEED ME'.
you have to earn a cat's trust & respect, which takes ages, but it's well worth it. I love cats too now. it took me a long time to realise that they weren't rubbing up against my legs & being friendly because they liked me, haha. how naive of me. :D
btw SHM: don't be ridiculous with this talk about Syria bombing Israel.
everyone should fucking bomb Israel.