Shhhshh! That’s the sort of question that will really get you between a cat and a dog in our house. It’s definitely not polite parlor discussion material. Please take a safe approach and only discuss clearly poor choices for pets, such as venomous snakes or carrion-eating birds. Conjure up ranks of images from science fiction, but whatever you do, don’t start animated discussions comparing cats and dogs!
Back in the old days of my cat Clancy J Bumps, known as the Grey Menace, you’d have been in for a blood-letting, clawing, and hours of stalking through the house. Then there was Smidgen, our double-pawed, double-clawed black kitty. As you walked by, she’d swat you with that double fist full of needle-sharp claws, just to remind you. Our Tuxedo cat Xenia avoided violence for imperial disdain, and the reminder that her ancestors had been Gods in Egypt. So there.
These days, we have a detente between our cats and the dog. It’s not so much that one or the other is better, but that the current selection of superior Cattle dog and Bengal cats offers a superior, more elite team to rue those wayward and unruly humans.
Ohhhh, and don’t forget it!
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This photo cracks me up, Lou. **OK, kids. Smile for the camera.” Max blinks. Sabrina/Marcus scratches where it itches. 😹
Bear could live happily with a kitty. Teddy? No. All of us think Max is a hero.
He thinks he is too.