Once upon a time, there were two huge white male tomcats that lived across the alley from my house. At some time, a little black and white female cat showed up at our house and I adopted her. Parents wouldn't allow cats in house so I set her up on the porch off the side of the house with her own box carpeted with old towels and pieces of scrap blankets. It wasn't long before she started bulging in the belly area and I was instructed in some parts of the birds and bees story. In a little while my little black and white cat was a mommy with 4 little mixed color kittens. I was in my element making sure there were enough towels and blankets to keep a warm bed for them (Montana summer). One morning, when the kits were maybe 4 or 5 days old, I went to check on them and walked out to a slaughterhouse on my porch. All the kits and the mother were bloody and dead. I was devastated. While I sobbed and screamed, my two older brothers talked it over and went looking for the tomcats that lived across the alley. They didn't find the cats and my father talked them down before they could, but since that day, I have been a Dog person. I have had many dogs, love them, will have more as soon as I have another fenced yard, but have had no similar feelings for cats. I am a cat-avoiding personality. In fact, both my older brothers have hated cats their whole lives and will not have one around. Trauma will do strange things to our psyches. To my mind, Dogs Rule!

Dogs will bite people they don't know. Sorry 'bout that Uncle Joe.
Cats will run from people they don't know. Where'd he go Uncle Joe?

Dogs will jump on their owners to say "Love me! Love me!"
Cats will stroll up to their owners when they feel like it as if to say "You may pet me now."

Cats kill vermin. A dog will ignore a mouse. I've had cats that would dig up mole crickets, kill snakes, eat large cockroaches, leap wildly in the air trying to swat moths . . . . They are killers and they'll torture any mouse they happen find.

Dogs might bark at vermin, thinking that'll impress 'em.

While a person can walk a cat, they don't need it. Show them a sand box and they'll figure it out. Dogs take a while to get house broken and it's common for them to forget.

The difference between dogs and cats:

Dogs say to their humans, "You feed me, you shelter me, you pet me. You must be gods."

Cats say to their humans, "You feed me, you shelter me, you pet me. I must be a god."