There has been the age-old debate about whether cats are better than dogs and vice versa. Similar in Australia to the ‘Holdens verses Fords’ debate in relation to cars, apparently you have to have a preference and be prepared to test your loyalty in any argument.
My problem is that I don’t have a preference. I love cats just as much as dogs and, in the final analysis, both have caused me problems with their madness. I can’t say that one has been better, some individuals have been slightly less crazy but I am only talking about degrees and not major increments in liveability.
Which leads me back to my current dilemma about obtaining another pet…What sort of pet would give me less trouble?
Okay on the plus side cats are more portable, can be cuddly, are independent but on the negative side, they cannot be confined to the floor area and, in the case of Eric, can perch on the top of bookshelves and do gravity experiments with fragile ornaments or, in the case of Zappy, find any food left in a seemingly impenetrable cupboards. Dogs can happily stay outside and, with fortress type boundaries, not wander away. They can provide ‘dustbuster’ type efficiency when cleaning accidental spills off the floor but on the negative side, their noise level is twice that of a cat particularly when you add whinging, sooking, snoring, clicky clacky toe nails on floorboards and protecting their household with frantic and persistent barking episodes.
So I sit for hours flicking from Cat Adoption to Dog Adoption on the rescue animal websites and still have no decision and no new pet…
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