| John2290 said: So, sute little kittens or mangy mutts? Cats. Please provide pics if you can. :D wish I could emmbed mine but the site won't let me and imgur is down as always. So heres an epic quote by H.P. Lovecraft who summed up my feeels, I do love every animal, dogs to but the truth is the truth, so I quote “Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect -- the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours -- and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense.” |
The truth is way more simple (basing it on taxonomy). A cat doesn't see you the same way a dog does. A dog is ancestor was an animal that hunts in packs and sees it's pack as it's family. Cats are way more solitaire and distanced from their own species. This is why cats are way more agressive to eachother than dogs. A dog sees you indeed as it's pack/family so you are the most important person for a dog and he sees you that way.
Dogs do indeed love human in some cases almodt more than themselves. A dog will always see you as alpha of the pack, unless you screw up, than you have a problem though. Dogs tolerate way more but make no mistake a dog has boundaries, if you cross them it will make you sorry you ever did. As for cats being as solitairy as they are they will abandon you of you cross their therms, except for food.
But to the case of superiority, in many aspects a dog can be way more superior than a cat. Dogs have so much potential, that they are usefull for us in ways cats well can't be. For instance you have police dogs, dogs to guide blind people through life, drugdogs, dogs to find missing persons guard things etc. Now to the point cats can't be those things because they barely can communicate with humans. Our ability to communicate on a very high level is what differentiate us from chimpansees for example a vastly superior animal just below humans.
When looking to potential within human society dogs are superior companions in every way. Some people think cats are better pets, but a cat will not be more than that a dog can be more, for instance I met a guy who was a guard and never did his job without it's dog who he trained himself. An ecologist which used his dog to track the where about of bats.
Please excuse my (probally) poor grammar
