Why cats are better than dogs.

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Jo Firey - 15 Dec 2005 03:41 GMT

We have always had dogs, but they have always lived quite a long time, so in
the nearly thirty nine years we have been married, we have only bought two
dogs and then kept two from a litter. Its been nearly eighteen years since
we had a puppy in the house.

Oh my god. How did I ever forget just how much work a puppy is and how much
attention it requires?

You can bring a kitten home, show it the litter box at one end of the house
and the food and water at the other end and you are pretty much set for the
next fifteen to twenty years. Yes I know I'm over simplifying it, but
compared to this puppy, kittens are that easy.

Jake and Molly have adjusted pretty well to Kayla with a minimum of hissing
and swatting. No yelps so the swats must just be on general principle. Oh,
and they also spend a great deal of time touring the house on surfaces that
are just above Kayla's nose, and acting like the vastly superior life forms
they are.

They sit a few inches from her crate when she's locked up, and a few inches
past the baby gate when she is out roaming.

Still this is about as much fun as you can have without breaking any laws.

Jo

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Christina Websell - 15 Dec 2005 19:18 GMT

> Its been nearly eighteen years since we had a puppy in the house.
>
> Oh my god. How did I ever forget just how much work a puppy is and how
> much attention it requires?

LOL!!! I've been waiting for this post :-)
Yes, you do forget. When you have a dog you sort of grow into each other,
in just a few years you fit together just perfectly. You know each other's
habits, you can almost read each other's mind, and the dog is trained just
how you want. No effort at all required. But OMG, when they pass away they
leave such a huge hole that naturally we want another one.
I'm sorry, Jo, but I laughed. Been there, done that! A puppy is a shock to
the system after having an elderly dog, isn't it?
I remember thinking "I'm sure Polly didn't do that...I'm sure she didn't
chew things as much etc etc or run off with my rubber gloves into the
garden, or pee just when she got back inside after I'd been outside giving
encouragement for 20 minutes with no result. Of course she did, and also
skated on my vinyl records and ate soap and vomited everywhere and messed up
my mum's knitting big time :-) but I had forgotten that because she became
almost the most perfect dog ever.
It will all be fine. You've just forgotten, that's all.
Best of luck and patience. It'll be worth it.

Tweed

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jmcquown - 15 Dec 2005 20:46 GMT

> We have always had dogs, but they have always lived quite a long
> time, so in the nearly thirty nine years we have been married, we
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> set for the next fifteen to twenty years. Yes I know I'm over
> simplifying it, but compared to this puppy, kittens are that easy.

(snippage)

> Jo

With my sweet mutt Sampson, I had never had a puppy/dog before so I didn't
realize how much work they were. As he and I grew older I began to realize
walking outside in the freezing rain, with a scoop & a plastic bag, wasn't
much fun. Especially when it was time to sniff everything but not time to
pee on anything.

When Persia arrived a year and few months after Sampson's trip to the RB, I
thought I'd died and gone to the RB myself! Here's the litterbox. Okay.
Here's the food. Okay. No getting up at 3AM only to have the dog just
sniff around and do nothing, even though he was *frantic* to go outside just
a minute before.

Don't get me wrong, I loved him dearly and mourned for him terribly. But
Persia is just so much easier to tend to! And she doesn't chew on my
slippers.

Jill

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Yoj - 15 Dec 2005 20:59 GMT

> > We have always had dogs, but they have always lived quite a long
> > time, so in the nearly thirty nine years we have been married, we
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> Jill

I love all animals. I grew up with a dog, and never knew a cat up close and
personal until I was in my 30's. For many years I had cats and a dog.
However, now I have just cats, for two reasons. When I go away, they don't
like it, and they let me know that, but they don't grieve the way dogs do.
And they're a lot less work, especially when you have a cat door.

Joy

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Monique Y. Mudama - 15 Dec 2005 22:37 GMT

> Don't get me wrong, I loved him dearly and mourned for him terribly.
> But Persia is just so much easier to tend to! And she doesn't chew
> on my slippers.

Yup. Exactly.

I would desperately love to have a dog, but I know I don't have
the time to raise one and tend to one properly. So I resist
temptation.

Dogs are wonderful, though, in very different ways than cats are
wonderful.

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