As I played with my adorable, furry kids today, I began thinking about how thankful I am that I chose dogs instead of cats. I am an all around animal lover, but cats just don’t do it for me. I’m not knocking cat owners, just simply saying they are not for me personally.
1. Dogs are always happy to see you whether you’ve been gone 2 minutes or 2 days. They don’t hide when you come home, making you wonder if they have escaped somehow because they are too snobbish to bother getting up from wherever they may be sleeping at the time to greet you properly;
2. Dogs do not sharpen their claws on your nice leather furniture;
3. Dogs do not bring you small, furry presents in the middle of the night in the form of half-dead (if you are unlucky) or dead (if you are lucky) mice, and leave them on your pillow as proud trophies;
4. Dogs do not ignore you when you speak to them simply because they are in one of their I’m going to do what I want, when I want-screw you moods;
5. Male dogs do not caterwaul in the wee hours of the morning keeping you and your neighbors up for days at a time because some particularly cute female happens to wander along; (by the way–get your pets spayed or neutered)
6. Dogs do not use your kitchen counters and table to perch on and lick their privates right before you unwittingly prepare and eat your dinner;
7. Dogs do not crap in a box of litter, drag said litter a foot across the floor after exiting poop box, nor do you have to sift their precious leavings out of the litter.
All in all, I will take a dog over a cat any day.
