Are you a cat person or a dog person?
Imagine if cats and dogs really did have opposable thumbs? 
cats or dogs?
08 Thursday Feb 2007
Posted in animals & pets, fun stuff, life stuff
08 Thursday Feb 2007
Posted in animals & pets, fun stuff, life stuff
Are you a cat person or a dog person?
Imagine if cats and dogs really did have opposable thumbs?
casa azahar 
I don’t know, az, but I suspect that if cats had opposable thumbs they would hide the fact so that we would still serve them in the manner to which they have become accumstomed.
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“A cat person or a dog person?”
oooh, that depends on the cat and dog. And anyway, I’m a rabbit person. 🙂
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Yeah I know, I don’t think they need to be mutually exclusive (though perhaps ‘rabbit people’ tend to stand on their own 😉 ), but there do seem to be quite a few ‘either or’ types out there, hence all those stereotypes.
I quite like dogs and would probably have one (a really big one!) if I lived a house with a huge garden. But on the whole I prefer cats as companions.
Having said that, one of my cats (Sunny – part Burman, part Siamese) is pretty much a dog. He comes running when he’s called, plays fetch, is slavishly devoted to me and quite endearingly trusting.
I agree with you, hmh, that cats would probably keep it to themselves (heh, they probably already are) in order to keep us subservient.
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You never own a cat, you´re merely a servant… in my case to three shameless beauties.
I’ve had a Siberian Husky and an Alaskan Malamute. The husky is more cat like – very independent and with old clear instincts.
Well at least had 25 years ago. Nowadays the huskies in this country are destroyed by reckless breeding. I’d never dare to have one again. Wouldn’t mind a Malamute if I lived in a rural area and had time to work with it.
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I’m definitely a cat person, although I might like a small to medium dog — something that wouldn’t drag me down the street!
I’m not so much scared of the concept of cats with opposable thumbs, as cats with wings!!!
I do know this — no can of catfood would be safe.
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I wonder, if Herman had opposable thumbs, if it would help prevent him falling off things so much?
I haven’t had a dog since I was a baby. I’m so allergic that even a few minutes in a room with a dog makes me sneeze and wheeze quite badly, even after doubling up on my allergy and asthma meds. Living with cats is manageable as long as I take my meds.
I don’t dislike dogs, though. Not even big, dumb, smelly, clumsy ones. A couple of our friends have the cutest golden and chocolate labs. Too bad I can’t spend much time with them.
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I don’t want anything to do with dogs. They scare me, sometimes into a cold sweat. When I was six a dog bit my nose half-off, you see. Hurrah for doctors with very fine needlework; there’s only a faint scar across the bridge of the nose these days.
But anyway, that was enough to put me off dogs for life. The small ones are stupid and the large ones are vicious and they all smell. So there.
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Oh gosh, let us descend into glittering generalities, why don’t we? the small ones are stupid and the large ones are vicious? Ruby is not vicious. Of course dogs all smell! They live through their noses and just try to get a dog to stop smelling things.
Yeah, yeah, I know, that isn’t what you meant.
I am a cat person, really. But I do love my canine. I mean, if you want to have something that worships you and loves you unconditionally, there isn’t anything quite like a dog.
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Now, now . . . the question was what would happen if cats and dogs acquired opposable thumbs, not what would happen if people with opposable thumbs started behaving like cats and dogs. 😉
I can quite appreciate the effect that Ivan’s experience has had on him. My mother was also viciously attacked by a dog when she was young and she never got over it.
I’m not afraid of dogs myself but I certainly wouldn’t approach one I didn’t know. Meanwhile, I often stop and talk to cats in the street knowing that if they approach me it means they aren’t afraid and are being friendly. A frightened dog might run or it might approach and then attack, and there’s often no way of knowing which will happen until it’s too late.
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“if you want to have something that worships you and loves you unconditionally, there isn’t anything quite like a dog.”
Or a Nog. 😉
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There’s nothing quite like a Nog. Full Stop. So there.
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I look better in cat.
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I feel quite fortunate that I never had a vicious dog attack me. I can imagine how that would ruin otherwise possibly friendly encounters forever. We had a dog when I was young who liked to chase cars. He had been hit a couple of times and his hips were touchy because of it. Even though he loved us dearly, if we messed with him in the painful area, he would give us a warning nip. In a way, this was a good thing, because it taught us to be cautious about how we approached any dog, even the one who was our family pet and guardian.
I had a dog once who was a perfectly odorless girl, UNLESS you fed her food tha had lamb as an ingredient. Then her body odor would have gagged a goat. It took me a while to figure out what was going on with her.
Well, she was perfectly odorless most of the time. She had a penchant for treating skunks like the cats she knew. For some reason, she NEVER could learn the difference, and then she would come in reeking of eau de skunk — ay de mi. She did not understand why she was so summarily banished from our presence when those times occurred. Poor Spako.
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Ha, Rain. 🙂
Ivan, you could get one of these …
kitty sniper
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