Dogs versus Cats

I have two cats, always had cats, since I was little.

Liz and Ruby

What erks me is that people feel the need to divide the world into two groups: dog people and cat people. As if owning a dog or cat, or no pet at all, signifies something (although there is some truth to it, but it's not a universiality).

Here's a shocker. I love cats, and I love dogs. Just about equally. My constant companion in grade school was Dmitri, my tan and white mutt, a tenth birthday present.

Thing is, dogs are a lot more work than cats. Perhaps it does signify something that I haven't felt certain that I could put the proper time and energy into a dog. I'm not terribly active, I don't particularly like to take long walks in all kinds of weather and scrape poop off the sidewalk.

But that doesn't mean I'm a "cat person" or that I dislike dogs. What prejudice. We are considering a dog down the road. We're thinking Corgi (the squat legged, watery eyed cute type) because it was bred as a herding dog and we theorize, would try herding the cats not attacking them (as might a daschaund, bred to hunt badgers).

Here are some cat centric websites I like:

Cute Overload
Ginormous Cats

:)Hero