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- From: bette@wc.novell.com (Elizabeth Brennan)
- Subject: Re: choose him or your cats??????
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:47:20 GMT
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- In <C1J1Hs.1q1@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
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- >In article <C0ponM.CHB@cs.uiuc.edu> noe@cs.uiuc.edu (Roger Noe) writes:
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- >>the boyfriend rather than the cat(s). Men like this are really just
- >>hulking, smelly, noisy, stupid dog-people. Men who are more cat-like
- >>(and who like cats) are better groomed, quieter, smarter, more
- >>affectionate, and cuter.
-
- > 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.
-
- > Personally I like cats *and* dogs (and horses, and etc). I
- > don't currently have a dog because my schedule is too hectic
- > and dogs require more maintainance than I'm in a position
- > to offer, so it wouldn't be fair. It's also a false idea
- > that cats and dogs don't do well together; puppies and kittens
- > raised together usually grow up to be the best of friends
- > (and often co-conspirators in conducting household mayhem)
-
- >---peter
-
- I think you'll find that virtually all of the dog bashing that is done
- in this group is meant to be taken as humor. The original posting is
- a good example of this.
-
- Bette
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-