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Dogs or Cats?
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| Cats conquer the world! |
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52.24% |
| Dogs defeat the cats! |
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24 |
35.82% |
| Ferrets lie in wait, awaiting an oppurtunity! |
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0% |
| All fail before the pinnacle of evolution, the banana. |
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11.94% |
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67 voters |
100% |
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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:27
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These number are a bit out of date, butt hey are the best i could find, from http://www.apapets.com/petstats2.htm
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There are 43,143,849 dog owners in the United States, who own a total of 61,542,900 million dogs, and there are 74,894,580 million cats for a total of 136,437,480 pets.
Of the 102.8 million households in the U.S., 31.2 million have at least one cat as a pet.
The following statistics exemplify pet owners feelings towards their pets.
28,539,216 dog owners purchase Christmas gifts for their dogs.
37,001,698 cats receive Christmas gifts from their owners.
13,455,002 cats have their birthdays celebrated.
9,843,962 dog owners celebrate their dogs' birthdays
Reason for Ownership Dogs Cats
Someone To Play With 90% 93%
Companionship 83% 84%
Help Children Learn 82% 78%
Someone To Communicate With 57% 62%
Security 79% 51%
NOTE: These numbers add up to more than 100% showing that people must have a pet for more than one reason. |
Who gets a cat for security?
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Static Universe
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I have a cat for emotional security.
Plus, it's fun to put a kitten's whole head in my mouth, but that's just how I get my kicks.
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:27
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Originally posted by Lonestar
Looks fearsome, MtG!
I'll have you know Mary (B*tch Kitty from Hell(tm)) has tangled with a buzzard and won. |
The funny part is he'll let me pick him up, flip him over and "baby-hold" him, and he'll give me kisses like a puppy. He likes LTEC! and Ian fairly well, but he's iffy with other people.
He had a "special" upbringing as a stray street kitten who had to scramble for food against other, much larger cats and dogs. I inherited him from LTEC! before we got married, since I'm the feral cat rehab specialist, and he earned the name with a scene right out of the first Jurasic Park movie. He was all of maybe one pound and 12 weeks or so old, had to work at climbing stairs one at a time, and when he got to my place, he intimidated two large adult cats so badly they finally ended up on top of my bed, in the middle, back to back, eyes wide in terror as this little thing kept trying to jump up to the bed to kill them. He figured they were a challenge to his access to food and shelter, so they had to be eliminated, sucks to be you. 
Later on, when he was full size, he demonstrated his fighting technique on another of our cats who made the mistake of making eye contact for a fraction of a second through a plastic cat door. Velociraptor charged through the cat door, head lowered, head-butted the other cat (who outweighed him 2.5 to 1) at the base of the throat with such speed that he literally flipped the other cat on his back with Velociraptor on top, teeth at the the other cat's throat.
None of this hiss and yowl and pawslap bullshit - total time from eye contact to positioned to kill was less than a second. Luckily, I was moving to intercept before it ever got started, but Boris, the other cat (and the rest of the cats who saw this) were traumatized for weeks afterwards.
Recently, we started giving Velociraptor brief periods of (closely) supervised release with the cats and dogs, but this is after over three years of being confined separately.
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