The notion that dogs are somehow inept at surviving in the wild is silly. Dogs are quite capable of taking care of themselves without humans. They do it all the time. Packs of feral dogs in rural America are a very real concern, preying on wildlife and domestic animals --including alot of cats.

http://icwdm.org/handbook/carnivor/FeralDog.asp

Cats on the other hand may be a bit too efficient at killing. The dark side of housecats is rarely discussed. They have a significant impact on wildlife --especially songbirds. Think about it next time your kitty drags home a bird and leaves the body on the porch--uneaten. What's he doing THAT for? Thought efficient predators actually ATE what they killed...

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2000/00_09_21.html

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/02/10/20090210cats0210.html

Cats are hardly more successful than dogs. In the 10,000 to 50,000 years since they were first domesticated, dogs have made themselves indispensible to humans in a variety of ways. In return, humans have allowed the dog population to grow to over 400 million animals. This is both good and bad for humans, but genetically speaking, the dog is very very shrewd. He joined up with the right partner.

Cats, on the other hand, are relative newcomers to this game of "protect and feed me and I can work for you (even if their "work" is being cuddly and mercilessly destroying the local songbird population) ." There are only about 4 million cats world wide. That's plenty though.

"Whatever you do...

DON'T pet this cat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Ys0J4rvFQ"

That's either a feminicat or cat coulter at home.lol

"how is this news?

I'm canceling my subscription.

-- John Anderson"

I say, cancel your life.

okay, this here is a deep one

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/trombonestudio/Images/Kliban_Cat.jpg

[link at my signature]

( official Kliban website-- with sound, and animation-- http://www.eatmousies.com/home.html )

http://magicway.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/kliban-catsa.jpg

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I had a cat (Annie) once that would fetch. She wouldn't fetch anything, but I had a ball made up of wadded paper & tape & no matter how far I threw it, the cat would tear off & get it & then walk back with the ball in her mouth & drop it at my feet.

She would do this for hours (if you would throw it). She was run over by a car back in 2005. One of the best cats I've ever had. Still miss her.

According to Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia taught one of his cats to roll over, beg, and fetch.

Teaching a cat to fetch? Garcia must have sold the idea to the cat like a business opportunity.

I know that personally, I would have paid money to see that. It could have been part of a vaudeville act.

Same with the cat driving the Roomba. Which reminds me, I have to get back to Youtube...

He isn't gay, which is rare among males who own cats

I'm going to have to break that news to several friends of mine.

It's going to be tough...perhaps not for them so much, but the girlfriends and wives are liable to be crushed.

No list of internet cat sites would be complete without the absolutely hilarious whatjeffkilled.com. It's a sick, yet entertaining blog detailing the adventures of Jeff, a gigantic, homicidal orange cat from Los Angeles. Not for the squemish.

Cats are often given less attention than dogs because people think they can't be trained.

This is the result of a misunderstanding of how cats think and react. Unlike dogs, who are pack animals and want to please their owners, cats are independent free thinkers, who will only respond to training if it makes sense to them.

I wrote a article called, "How to Train a Cat Like a Dog," which won $1000 from the manufacturer of Sticky Paws at a Cat Writers' Association's international conference. I described how I trained my cat, Simon Teakettle, to come when called, sit on command, stay, give his paw, not touch a treat until I gave the signal, and do many other behaviors.

By the time he died, at the age of 19, he was able to follow verbal instructions for 16 distinct behaviors. Many of these were accomplished with just praise as a reward.

This article is available free of charge on my website, www.SimonTeakettle.com.

There is nothing like a cat. Beautiful, loving, graceful, playful, and when sitting on your chest at night and purring, as soothing as a lullaby. To the extent that the Internet is eradicating hateful notions of these wonderful creatures, then kudos to the 'Net.

The missus and I have a house full of cats, we're active in cat rescue, and we have no kids by choice. Our cats are not our kids, and they are not our pets. They are our furry nonhuman companions, and I see nothing wrong with that.

As for being a manly manly man's man despite loving cats, I plead guilty. Why, I'm so manly I even shave my earlobes. Now that's manly!

Tomreedtoon, You are one sick, hate-filled, insecure pervert. You should really be corresponding with serial killers who also fantasize about killing.

hey, thanks for that.

That ought to be made into an endless loop, like a Moebius strip.

For those of you who have never smoked pot, and have wondered what it's like- it isn't like being drunk.

It's like "Cat On a Roomba."

So is watching the video. Possibly even better.

See ya later...I'm going back to commune with Youtube for a while.

yeah...puking on the carpet and pissing all over somebody's clothes is sooooooo cute!

Kryptogal: Nailed it. I read an overview/review of the recent documentary/book about what would happen if humans were to suddenly vanish from the planet ("The World Without Us")--I believe the author stated that all domestic dogs as we know them would be dead inside of a week, where cats would shrug and move on. Big surprise.

Memorandum: Not all, for sure. I've had women's cat allergies be a dealbreaker, or a major contributor to the dealbreak, on four occasions. I've also seen online dating profiles that explicitly list "no guys that own cats", as apparently you're somehow less of a man for it (insert crude joke about which pussy comes out victorious in that particular conflict here).

Tomreedtoon: What everybody else said. You really ought to consider how the occasionally insightful or good thing you post is massively overwhelmed by the amount of vile crap that you post, and the credibility of the former is swept away by the latter.