• Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Cats are conflicting for me. They can be cute, but I hate when they try to walk on me. Because I know if I try to move them they’ll probably scratch me. And that’s no bueno to me, just makes me anxious as fuck when they walk my way while i’m sitting on a couch trying to relax.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Dogs are too energetic and overstimulating for me to be around. I’m fairly allergic to them as well, so I have a decent excuse for the people who insist their dog will be perfectly well-behaved and calm (they weren’t).

      • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        my cats walk over me like i’m a carpet. sometimes i wake up in the middle of the night with a paw in my mouth or a cats ass on my face. but they never scratch me on purpose.

        • Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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          4 months ago

          It’s more when I’ve tried to pick them up, they try to dig in because they don’t want to be picked up. It’s a catch 22 situation.

  • Shou@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Fucking being only a dog or cat person. I love most animals. The only issues are whether or not I can give them what they need.

    The amount of people buying birds and neglecting them is depressing. Same for dogs, but less so.

  • Buglefingers@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Dogs require a lot more attention and general effort than cats typically. So it would make sense that the pet of choice is predominantly the one that can more or less be self sufficient if you provide it with the basics.

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Dogs are subservient. Cats are independent.

    A person who prefers dogs might be someone who feels the need to exert control as a means of feeling in control themselves. OR they might simply be allergic to cats.

    This isn’t a male-specific thing. Think of Karen with her purse-dwelling toy chihuahua mix with severe anxiety and multiple chronic disorders.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      i like to think of people who own pets as people incapable of being alone for even short periods of time, that or they just like having the company of them, it’s one of the two.

    • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Dogs are loving, cats are apathetic. People that grew up with loving parents prefer dogs as they are well equipped to provide the nurturing they themselves were given. People that were emotionally neglected as children prefer cats because that lack of bonding is familiar to them.

      • morphballganon@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Wow, being pretty presumptuous there, aren’t we?

        Notice how I said “might” in my comment and you didn’t?

        Maybe prefering dogs causes people to lie about having a loving family growing up? Lol

  • odium@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    What do bisexuals and asexuals prefer? Both or neither? And bold of you to assume straight women prefer cats. Ik way more straight women who prefer dogs than cats.