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- From: julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas)
- Subject: Re: choose him or your cats??????
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:43:11 GMT
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- In article <1k6ume$d5q@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
- >> I'm new to this group, so I don't know if this is a Never-
- >> ending Topic, but I'd like to take issue with the dog-people/
- >> cat-people dichotomy. In my experience it's rare to begin
- >> with and people with such strong species-preferences are
- >> usually narrowminded and intolerant.
- >
- >I agree. I am not narrowminded or intolerant, and therefore
- >despite my preference for cats I also like dogs. Up to
- >a point. I don't like stupid, neurotic dogs that bark
- >nonstop. I also don't like snivelling little rug-rats.
- >And I despise spindly, overbred show-dogs as well as the types
- >that breed them.
- >
- >But give me a good dog, a real dog, and I like it just
- >fine. See? I'm not intolerant.
-
- Well, I'm a confirmed animal-person of any sort, except,
- <sigh>, dogs. I just don't like them. Too smelly and
- slobbery. (Please, I'm not flaming anyone for liking dogs,
- this is just my opinion. And I am not mean or cruel to dogs.
- I just don't want one. I won't flame you so please don't
- flame me.) I like everything else, cats, fish, horses, iguanas,
- snakes, millipedes, tarantulas,....
-
-
- Of course, I did recently see (and get to hold and generally
- drool all over) a skiperkee dog. Wonderful thing. Cat-sized,
- no smell, and many cat behaviors. I had to keep looking at her,
- while she was curled up on my lap, to convince myself she wasn't
- a cat :) (She was as dumb as a doorknob, but hey, I've had
- dumb cats too)
-
- Julie
- DISCLAIMER: All opinions here belong to my cat and no one else
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