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Religion and politics are thought to be the underlying things that can make it or break it in this world when it comes to humans getting along with each other. But the differences don’t end there.

We have night owls and morning people, people who prefer yolk over egg whites, those who can curl their tongue and those who can’t. There are left-handed people and right-handed, and in the midst of the scale, you have cat people and dog people.

If you’re one, and every individual on this planet has a preference for dogs, cats, and rarely both, you’d know what that means. And if you've been living on the moon and still don’t know whether you’re a dog or a cat person, then this batch of tweets is just for you. So roll up your sleeves, ‘cause it’s about to get heavy.

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Dynein
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eh. Cats and dogs have, on average, different ways of socializing, and people can differ in what comes more natural to them. I don't hate dogs but generally find them exhausting; on the other hand, I love the low-key socializing that's typical of cats.

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Daria B
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, same here. Dogs really are adorable, but they're too social for me. However, there really are dogs out there who understand the concept of healthy boundaries and will just happily chill by your side. Those are mostly adult trained dogs, though. Anyway, I have no pets because I'm a bit lazy, to be honest, but I do find them adorable.

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EA
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i would consider myself a dog person, because i'm allergic to cats. so no I'm not a dumb person, I just don't like cats because I'm sneezing like crazy around them, and if I get scratches i get a rash.

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Kari Panda
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you. Why do people always have to categorise - dogs vs cats, Marvel vs DC, Pokémon vs Digimon... Let me enjoy what I love!

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Mona Khadra
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriuosly, I like all those. I'm not a "this kind of person" if I like it I like it. I love all animals and marvel and DC. Love Pokémon, liked digimon as a kid.

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howdylee
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love cats, i've always had cats, i consider myself a cat person. but i love OTHER PEOPLE's dogs that I can play with and pet, and that person has to pick up poop outside in the rain. Absolutely nothing against dogs, but i'd rather be owned by cat because of less maintenance!

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Sarah Simons
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, i'm going to explain this comment. I meant it as how being bisexual means your attracted to both boys and girls, like how I like cats and dogs, as pets. I didn't mean it in... that way. Sorry for the confusion, the comments gone now.

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Fieke Engelen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good on you, I didn't see the original comment but can imagine. I give you credit for getting back with an explanation. Maybe it's not your mind but theirs

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Giles McArdell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can I not express a preference without being called "Dumb"? Don't be so black and white.

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Tami
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Each has their own merits. Why do people hate things that don't exactly match their preferences? "My preferences are the best, and everyone else's are just wrong." That's the basis of most of the hate in this world.

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Debbie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've 3 cats and a dog , love all of them to bits and they each have nicknames which they respond to ,

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Id row
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like certain dogs, but I love all cats. I'll always be a firm cat person.

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Claire
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a person who was raised around dogs. I volunteer at an animal rescue - walking dogs and cleaning kennels - and after I am done I always go and see if there are cats I can say hi to. I have so little exposure to cats that I can't understand them in the way I do dogs. With dogs, I rarely ever have to think about what they are feeling but I'm usually trying to figure out cats. I just need more time and practice with them! More cat cuddles!

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Sac Shim
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought “dog person” meant you simply prefer or is more keen on dog, or vise versa. Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion and taste. Cats just don’t give me the feeling that dogs make me feel. The above statement, to me, is as if to say, “if you don’t love both cotton and linen you are a “dumb person”.

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Biljana Malesevic
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love both, but cats are easier if you don't have much time. They sleep like 16 hours a day and don't need walks (they do that themselves).

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Christina Uhlir
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart." !!! Yes, animals. All animals, including the tortured, murdered animals on your plate. This is the only reason why people are INCAPABLE to co-exist in peace.... with each other!!! Got it??? "He who causes suffering, shall suffer. There is NO escape." - Buddha Don't blame animals - emergence of deadly viruses - like covid19, are man-enabled!!!!! Go ahead, down-vote, you will not help yourselves. Truth cannot be down-voted.

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Mona Khadra
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I grew up with cats, always loved them and still do. As a kid I would take in strays. I used to catch garden snakes with my brother as a kid, grew up with Parrots, all kinds of exotic birds, and exotic fish. My father use to breed and sell them and I'd help him clean fish tanks and train birds, and even deliver fish egg/babies. Currently every person in my family has a dog, including myself, I have a beautiful Belgian Melinois, and I have a yellow belly slider Turtle for 6 years. I had a panther Chameleon who recently passed away. :'( I do love all animals. They are all beautiful and unique in their own way. Whenever I go to someone's house cats come and sit on my lap and like me a lot.

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Michael Sanders
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can’t stand cats. I love dogs. I can’t believe people are making cases for their preferences. I’m brilliant.

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The weird one!
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ANd i hate when people ask me what do you like more cats or dogs and you can only choses ONE like i cant

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Sweetie Dahling
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been so desperate for a pet (not stable enough financially to get one right now) that I've even started talking to the spiders & bugs while I rehome them from an indoor setting to the patio. Whatever the word is for loving all animals (pan animalia lover?), I'm it!

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Pan Narrans
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bull excrement. I love all animals but I prefer to have a cat for company because I work full time.

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Mario Gonzalez
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Flawed premise is flawed. I am a cat person. However, I love cats AND dogs. I just prefer sharing my life with cats.

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Radek Suski
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love dogs and I don't like cats. I don't hate them, I will still pet them yet I am not a fan. If you think I am a dumb person for that reason you can go f..🤬yourself.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cat person and dog person don’t refer to which animal you love. They refer to which animal you live with. I love every animal. I live with cats so I am a cat person. I love dogs but I don’t want to live with one, just like cows or birds.

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Mertimo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really love dogs, but I wouldn't get a dog myself unless I had a big yard, because I can't imagine having a dog indoors all the time (except for the daily walking), in my opinion they are a bit smelly for that. But I have an indoor cat who keeps herself perfectly clean, we spend at least half an hour outside in our super small garden together everyday and we both are happy with that :)

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Fieke Engelen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No! That's not quite fair. I love both but my cat cuddles and enjoys being a happy house cat. Then when I take the dog for her walk I just enjoy her enthusiasm

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katboxjanitor
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I enjoy both species. They can each be pushy little brats, stand-offish, and or chill being who only "seem" to care only about food. I have had the privilege of helping both discover their own courage, become well-behaved free spirits and loving companions. Overall, they have been damned good companions whether they have been a personal pet or a foster dog from a shelter or a service dog candidate.

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Bettye McKee
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seth, you have no idea what "dumb" means! I am definitely not a dumb person because I can speak. When people refer to "dumb animals" they are simply saying they are incapable of speech. Get a dictionary, Seth, and read it cover to cover. In the meantime, your opinion means nothing.

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LadyAna
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love almost all animals, but I admit I have been adopted by cats!

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Kelly Hartle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You love both--it's like a choice between chocolate and vanilla.

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Lynn Morello
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No. Cat person all the way, I was attacked by a Dog when I was 14, and my son's mate was attacked by our dog when he was 6. I had to hold his face together on the trip to the hospital.

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Eshaa Venkatesh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope not true, I absolutely love dogs having grown up with them. But I am terrified of cats. I can't bring myself to pick up a cat, totally creeps me out.

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Polly Culberson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love most animals the same, possibly excluding snakes, crocs, alligators and lizards.

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Lieke Giesbers
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't agree. There are people who have plenty of reasons to not like one of them. For example, when I was very young there was this one neighbourhood dog that always seemed eager to attack me. This has left me a trauma which caused me to never be comfortable around dogs and never like them. An acquaintance of mine has a bunny that nearly got killed by a cat when it was young. She has never really been able to like cats after. People. Have. Reasons.

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Z Kalnina
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not sure how that started but I care for around 15 animals currently. They loved me first. I just felt responsible for them after a short while..

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a dog person, but I still think cats are adorable

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LivingTheDream
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously? If someone doesn't love something they are Dumb? You need help understanding personal freedom of thought.

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Triv
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love cats. Unfortunately, so does my doggo... She thinks they taste yummy... 😨

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, if you like either one you are a dumb person, i know i will get downvoted idc.

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Sorry, but no. Dogs are dumb as bricks, loud, obnoxious, slobbering beasts. 0/10.

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There’s been an ongoing debate on whether cat and dog people are really that different. And if we commonly agree on the fact that they indeed appear to have somewhat different personality traits, the question on what exactly separates them remains open to discussion.

So in order to find out what a person who spends more time with felines than many of us in lockdown spend with other human beings has to say on the discussion, we reached out to Molly De Voss. Molly is a certified feline behaviorist with a vision to reduce the number of cats euthanized in shelters, plus her cat intuition reigns supreme.

Molly said that in her personal observations, dog people “tend to be more 'outdoorsy' than cat people,” but she added: “that said, I like to hike—with my cat, of course.”

Moreover, “more women tend to own cats than men—partly because cats are seen as feminine and dogs more masculine; and partly because cats gravitate to women more because their voices are in a megahertz range similar to their meows.”

The feline behaviorist also noticed stronger feelings about cats since “more people (usually men) really dislike cats than they do dogs.”

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“I think that may limit a single woman’s opportunities in the dating pool—especially if she has multiple cats. However, I have several male cat-owning clients who are neither gay, nor neurotic so obviously there’s no 100% stereotype that fits all,” Molly concluded.

To find out what the science has to say about this highly debatable topic, Bored Panda also reached out to Beatrice Alba, a lecturer in psychology at Deakin University and the co-author of a 2015 study on how dog people and cat people differ on dominance-related traits.

Beatrice told us that the bigger differences seem to be between people who self-identify as a "cat person" vs a "dog person." “But, of course, you don't have to choose between the two—plenty of people identify as both or neither. Having said that, although we found statistically significant differences between cat people and dog people on some psychological measures, the size of the effects were not huge.”

Beatrice’s study found that “dog people scored significantly higher than cat people on competitiveness, and a characteristic called Social Dominance Orientation. This is essentially a preference for hierarchy and the belief that some groups of people should dominate other groups of people.”

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As a result, the creators of the study argued that “people prefer pets that complement their own personalities, so someone more inclined towards characteristics related to social dominance should prefer a more submissive pet, like dogs.”

Meanwhile, “Those who are not so attached to hierarchies and ranking highly within them may be more inclined to like cats, who we all know defer to no one,” Beatrice concluded.

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Another recent study conducted by the psychologist Samuel D. Gosling and his colleagues at the University of Texas in Austin, in which 4,565 individuals were asked whether they were dog people, cat people, neither, or both, shed some light on these questions.

Gosling summarized his results, saying, "There is a widely held cultural belief that the pet species—dog or cat—with which a person has the strongest affinity says something about the individual's personality, and this research suggests there are significant differences on major personality traits between dog people and cat people."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There have been so many videos of cats defending their human, especially kids.

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Gosling’s research showed that dog people were generally 15% more extroverted, 13% more agreeable, and 11% more conscientious than cat people. The same research showed that cat people were 11% more open-minded than dog people.

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A study led by Denise Guastello, an associate professor of psychology at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, also showed somewhat similar results. People who said they were dog lovers in the study tended to be more lively—meaning they were more energetic and outgoing—and also tended to follow rules closely.

Cat lovers, on the other hand, were more introverted, more open-minded, and more sensitive than dog lovers. Cat people also tended to be non-conformists, preferring to be expedient rather than follow the rules.

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Stanley Coren surveyed 6,149 people, aged 16 to 94. It included 3,362 dog owners and 1,223 cat owners, and the rest were people who had neither of them. “My results showed that people who owned only cats seemed to be somewhat different than dog owners, or people who owned both dogs and cats, in terms of their personalities. People who own both dogs and cats seem to be much like the people who own only dogs,” Stanley explained for Psychology Today.

His findings showed that cat owners “were one-third more likely to live alone than dog owners and twice as likely to live in an apartment or flat,” while dog owners were more likely “married, living in a house, and having children living in the home.”

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When it comes to personalities, Stanley found that “people who own only cats tend to be relatively introverted (low on extroversion) and also reasonably cool (low in warmth or agreeableness).”

The author of the study explained further: “The general pattern that comes out of both studies is that dog owners are more social and interactive and cat owners (who own cats exclusively) are more introverted and self-contained."

On the other hand, it wouldn’t be right to generalize these findings and claim that they represent the full picture. Keep in mind that the dog and cat owners that were surveyed for studies represent only a fraction of society, and that any claims should be taken with a grain of salt.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yet it is estimated that nearly 25k people are killed by dogs per year. No deaths are recorded by cats

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My personal verdict: Posh breeds are elitist, mutts and rescues aren't. Regardless of cat or dog. And regardless of cat or dog, I hope you researched the needs of your breed, didn't get a breed with known genetic issues, didn't just get your dream breed without considering all the responsibilities of pet ownership, and didn't get it from a dubious source for cheap.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw meme that says "dogs are great, but cats won't show the police where your drugs are".

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why is there this Dog Vs Cat thing? Even as a joke I don't really get it. I really really love both cats and dogs. Am I the only one..

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the main reason cats are 'more likely' to eat your corpses is that dogs are noisier, and therefore will get investigated before they get desperate enough to eat a person.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ikr? My mom got bit by a huge dog when she was little, she never lived it over, and whenever she tells anybody she's scared of dogs, they're always like, "No, no, that's not possible, here, pet my Rottweiler, he jumps but he's very friendly" and often I have to distract the dog while Mom runs for cover.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't like dogs either. They're too clingy! I need my space. Cats are great because they sporadically want love and attention, but they're also independent and have their own lives. Dogs wanna be with you 24/7. Same reason I don't have kids.

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