My husband and daughter won't let me get a dog because even though we have a large double lot yard, and I need the daily exercise of walking every day... Nobody wants to clean up the doggie poo outside!!! We have 2 cat's left... Mr. Daisy was our third but passed away. His passing was a huge loss to our family.
I serve two cats. I don't dislike dogs, but much prefer cats. What others see as arrogance, I see as a retained desire to be self sufficient despite domestication. Having dogs in an urban environment I feel is borderline abuse until they learn to use a litter box and are not left alone since they are a pack animal by nature.
I realize that my attitudes were shaped growing up on a ranch where every animal was expected to do its part. Dogs are useful and serve many functions on a ranch and are very limited in an urban environment. Cats keep the mice at bay wherever they are.
I have had both, and I was mushily in love with both my cats and my dogs. I will say, however, that my dogs had human style hair instead of fur, which made them far more tolerable for my allergies. My cats were just an allergy misery the whole time I had them.
