Had a dog I loved and his favorite toy was a squeak fake mouse. Maltese. So in the early hours of the morning she would come and plop it down my face while I slept. Had a lot of patience to a point.
If I didn't get up after a few hours, not so much. So she died of old age and was awesome but know I have a cat. That I raised as a kitten mostly. And he gets a mouse toy, and the same fetch game.
Maltese dogs they use to breed and use them to go into grain silos and let 7 or 8 of them lose and they would just rampage through and break the necks of rats and fling them up and go on to the next one.
Point being, my kitten is a one year old plus cat now and I just can't handle him dropping the toy mouse, and his strutting around like he caught a real mouse, at 2 in the morning. But it isn't the toy, just cat naps, they want to play all the time. He was like rabid when playing while asleep and shut himself in the bathroom somehow playing.
I open the door when I get up and he acts, cats are good at that but like people you know when they are fake and authentic. Dogs are a hell of a lot more than cat IME. And comes out like he has been in a Vietcon P.O.W. camp meowing with wide eyes. Made me laugh. Litter Box in there.
So, having experienced them both do you like cats or dogs more? For those inclined to have a pet?
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Cats are dumber at reading you.
Dogs learn to read you, to know your expressions and some of your words. To react to them, to know when you are happy about something and when you don't.
Cats usually don't learn that stuff. Either they understand your expressions of they don't, so if you have to comunicate you will be the one needed to do the effort.
Dogs want to please you, if you punish them they understand you are punishim him (for theyre own good) Cats likes you, if you punish them they usually understand that you are mad at them or even that you stopped loving them. Everytime you punish a cat it is more likely to start loving you less and less. It is harder to punish a cat.
A Dog loves you because you are part of the pack. He can love you extra, but a certainly huge amount of love is just implied when you are just part of the pack.
A Cat falls in love with you. It might even never happen, and it can stop loving you one day to later return years later because he remembers you and misses you.
Dogs ways of expressing love and happiness are easy to read. They open their mounths and stick out their tonges, they lick you, they do happy sounds and jump and bark and look you with open eyes.
Cats ways of expressing love are more annoying. They massage you with their claws. They lick you with their spiky tongues, they purr at night when they sleep with you, waiking you up, they bring you death animals to you to eat, they cross and frot on your legs while you walk. Sometimes when you punish them while they do some of that stuff, they read it as "he doesn't love me as much as as me doing those things", because they are that dumb at relationships.
I prefer cats, with the dogs i always felt that they just loved me for being part of the group, and i hate being part of a group. All the cats i've had loved me because the way i am.
With the first cat, it was my grandmother cat, he lived a lot of fucking years, but he read me as a child, so he played with me running acrross the house and hidding "behind" chairs. He was almost blind so he sometimes became lost and meowed or crash into something and stopped because of pain, or stopped because he was tired. Some kids abused him when he was young, and he always hissed at children, but he trusted me and played with me.
The second cat was my sisters cat that i had to take care of for almost a year. She started being totally afraid, hiding in the used clothes of my sister with a cone on her head because she had a infection in one eye (she almost lost it). After a few months, she waited a me for hours everyday in front of the door until i came back home, she was always purring when she knew i was close. and she always jumped to huge me as soon as i walked into home. Everytime i seemed "depressed" this is, when i didn't moved much or wanted to play with her, she would bring me dead bugs and sit with me. Sadly my sister "got her back" so the cat has been mad at me for years, she no longers purrs, not with me, not with anyone. Now she is 15, it is old, it is tired. The last christmas, i brought some hair bands like the ones we played with when she was a kitten, she played with me, at the end of it, she purred and stayed with me (and hissed when i touched her, still, she was purring, like she wanted to play hard to get but was already candy).
All my history with cats are like that.
I don't know, most histories of people with cats that don't show love for them looks to me like abuse stories. Like if you marry a woman because you force them to and then expect her to love you.
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