Fighting like cat and dog?

[stonyloam]

Well, my cousin's cat didn't have to be trained to retrieve pheasants, it used to drag them home on its own initiative.

Unfortunately they do tend to be a wee bit gun shy. The old 16 ga. tends to make them a bit nervous.

[Stefan-A]

That could be said for most people, as well.

[Thamnophis]

In the past we had cats.
Now we do not have them (cats as well as dogs) and we do not wan them anymore. We are to busy for such pets. Maybe when we are retired.

[scorpio]

A cat-owner is doing what his cat is saying and is happy, because he thinks, the cat is doing what he likes.

Dogs are fine too, but I prefer cats more. You have too teach tehe dog to go to toillette outside, to wash him when he is dirty from outside, to teach him to walk at feet, to be fine to other people, not jumping up at them, you've to take care, that there are no fightings with other dogs and so on. You haven't got to teach a cat so much. It's enough if she don't kill your flowers and other accessoirs and don't go at the table.

But if you have a well trained dog it's a fine thing. Of course I like them, but dog's smells allways bad. If you are used about it you ignore it. And to train a dog isn't my thing really.

[jasuncle1972]

This came up somewhere before and I have been intrigued for ages...

Reading through your posts, it seems that more reptile keepers prefer cats to dogs or at least are more likely to keep cats. Is that really the case or just coincidence?

So what is it for you.. CATS or DOGS?

Definately cats for me!

Iv'e had both, but my cat left. She didn't like rocko ( my min pin).

[drache]

cat piss is one of the most persistent noxious odours on earth
it'd be tough for anything coming from a dog to compete with that

[Loren]

Bo and luke (my dogs) smell pretty dang bad if they havent been bathed in a while(or more than 3 hours for that matter), but they live outside most of the time so it doesnt matter much. I do have a crate that I put in the house when it gets really cold at night, so then I either bath them or just put up with stink for a few days. In the summer,I hose them off just about everday so its not bad. But its not real easy to bath those big boys in the winter.

[Lori P]

cat piss is one of the most persistent noxious odours on earth
it'd be tough for anything coming from a dog to compete with that

Amen to that. Male cat pee and male goat pee are just about the worst, lingering smells out there.

[Loren]

I raised a male goat one time- and it was the LAST time ! The type of stink that burns your nose. Plus that sucker kept getting out because all of our pens were designed for cattle, and then it would charge after me. I thought that goats ramming you in the behind was just a cartoon thing until it happened to me a few times.

[Lori P]

(LOLOL) (Snicker) Sorry. :-) Hope your butt has recovered nicely. LOL

Actually, my bucks were always sooo sweet. The problem I had with my two Nubian bucks, Zydeco and Zanzibar, was they were so friendly that they wanted me to rub and love on them all the time... and man, you just can't love something that smells like that but so much. Zanzibar passed away a few years ago, Zydeco lives with a friend now and has 28 does all to himself so he's pretty content. :-)

But there is nothing that gets that buck smell off of you. And when all the does cycled in the spring and drove the bucks into full rut, heavens, you could smell my property up the road, I swear!!!!