Me and my family have been "pondering" to get a cat for like 10 years now, should we just get one?
Me and my family have been "pondering" to get a cat for like 10 years now, should we just get one?
Me and my family have been "pondering" to get a cat for like 10 years now, should we just get one?
If you get a cat I would recommend 2 boys from the same litter, if you can, they will be bonded already and keep each other's social needs met when you are inevitably busy.
I recommend boys because they are generally more affectionate and less skittish, so if you think it's cute when they bump their little heads on you or want lap cats, boys are going to fit that a bit more.
Please do some research on cat enrichment and socialization, a lot of people accidentally neglect their cats because the common wisdom is that they take care of themselves, other than food, water, and litter.
Cats are like ferrets. Awful vermin that was never meant to be a pet. They stink like shit and the only reason to keep them is to take pictures of them to show the other girls/gays.
Get a dog like a normal person. At least you can choose if it stinks like shit (any mastiff/hound) or smells good.
? cats smell like a wool blanket
Yeah, my cat smells pleasant, if anything she smells slightly sweet. Not even slightly bad. If you keep the litter clean the house will smell fine as well.
On the other hand dogs have literal stink glands, they produce a musky odor that gets on everything they lay on. This means more carpet shampooing, more couch shampooing/cleaning, and bedding should be swapped frequently anyway so that's nbd.
>inb4 bathe your dog
You really shouldn't bathe your dog more than every 2 weeks, and even that is a lot, as it's bad for their skin. If you want to keep your dog from smelling you will also need dry shampoos and unscented dog friendly wipes. This isn't impossible, but the effort to keep both your house and pet from stinking goes up dramatically with a dog.
This isn't to say dogs are bad pets, I love dogs, but going strictly by smell cats win by miles and miles.
Also a puppy is a similar amount of work to a baby until about 3 months, at which point it's like a toddler until 1-2 years. A cats needs are much easier for a busy person to meet, as they are most social in the morning and before bed, anyway.
>Dogs have stink glands
>Thinks they need bathed, everything cleaned, all the time
Uh no. You might have a genetic memory issue. Most people I know do not think dogs stink unless it's a certain kind of dog (ie: golden retriever that lives outdoors) and they're sopping wet, but I hear this on the internet all the time. Literally nowhere else. It's a sad possibility that if one of your ancestors was attacked by a dog, you might have an instinctive aversion to their smell
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fearful-memories-passed-down/
This is why, I think, when someone says they think dogs stink, they always turn out to be black or mexican. Due to their tendency towards racially motivated (aka "fuck white people" morality) robbery and conflict with police they are very likely to have had someone 2 generations back that got mauled by officer fido.
Either that or it's a cilantro situation, some gene you have (that most white people dont) makes you think dogs have a nasty musk.
The rest of the world, so most white people basically, thinks dogs have a very mild smell that is neither good nor bad, and there's a lot of love for sleepy dog feet and their ear smell apparently.
some third worlders (ie: average muslim/catholic) have never interacted with a civilized dog, only dogs that are allowed to roam free for most of the day, so they aren't aware of what dogs actually smell like. only of whatever they rolled in.
other people have never ever known a dog besides a mastiff or hound type because in poor areas of the world the majority of dogs are mastiffs and hounds since they're the best for being disposable slave animals. spitzes and collies are more upper class, still working dogs but not just disposable slaves.
They don't stink enough to be offensive sitting right next to you, but If I crawl into my dogs kennel and sniff her bed, it has a distinctly musky smell.
What I have noticed is when I go to homes where people rarely clean, the carpet and couches are matted or beat up (from oil and never being conditioned) and the entire house smells just like my dogs bed, which is to say strongly of dog.
I would have to press my nose to my dog and sniff her, a week after a bath to notice her musk.
That said I was comparing to my cat which as I said, smells good, not neutral or musky, but actually good smelling.
My hand for white checking. Not that it matters, but I'm almost entirely french and british
Dogs basically don't have a smell, even their beds. It's a hairs breadth away from the scent of regular ass fabric.
Unless a dog is very long haired, in an unnatural way that prevents them from staying clean. Double coated dogs naturally shed dirt the same as cats, but dogs with "hair" need brushed out twice daily to stop them from accumulating festering dirt and oil.
Cats on the other hand smell like dust and sometimes piss.
Consider the distinct possibility someone 1-2 generations back in your family was attacked by a dog. Genetic memory is real. I know for a fact my father was attacked multiple times by a cat. It sounds like bitch shit but no one really expects cats to be aggressive, or to jump on people from above.
>dogs basically don't have a smell
>My dad was attacked by a cat and now I'm afraid of cats
Well now I feel embarrassed for replying to a troll more than once.
He said that cats smelled like piss actually. Which is true.
no. cats are garbage
Cat website newfag
Yeah? This is a bird board fuckhead. Go take your catfaggery elsewhere.
really? because i see way more cat threads and always have dipshit. what cope are you going to come up with now?
No you don't tard. There are always at least four different threads on this board dedicated to just posting pictures of birds, and there are a lot more dedicated to whatever someone wants to talk about related to birds.
The only threads you feloids have are you arguing with dogfags, stupid matchups between tigers and lions or whatever, and the occasional pet thread.
There's a reason that there is a /kot/ but not a /burd/. We don't need one, this entire board is for the birds, you're just parasitizing off it.
Only a newfag would fall for this
Yes, we know deekchat is a thing. We know they organize "raids" where they just post pictures of birds. We know this is how the non-janny members 404 threads they don't like. We know every single member of deekchat is a zoophile. We know about deekchat.
Therefore, we know Wauf is not a bird board. It just has a bird shaped tumor, called deekchat, the dried up corpse of eagleboard.
It's not a cat website or a dog website either, for that matter. Wauf was historically pretty neutral regarding an imaginary pet console war. The idea that we must love cats and hate dogs is VERY reddit, closely linked to the reddit fedora tipper culture where they all read HP lovecraft and other gay shit for nerd homosexuals. Because those homosexual nerds that don't even watch the good anime (like fooly cooly) see dogs as a symbol of "chad", AKA people like me, who have their shit together and have had sex with women (japanese women, to be specific, visit tokyo sometime its great).
GIRUGAMESH!
Must be a pitbull board then.
My cat could eat your bird.
generally if the family has three people even a shitty genes cat will be tired enough to not be shitty.
*my family and I
That's more of a formality than anything
no it's called correct grammar ESL
I have seen more native speakers who use bad grammar than ESL individuals. Perhaps learn a second language and speak it fluently before passing judgment on others?
>Not gonna look it up, just gonna throw insults.
As a former 5 year old I get where you're coming from.
English is my first language, I also took 12 years of it, I know a thing or two about it.
Nope. Rule of thumb is to remove the other person or people from the sentence and see which makes more sense:
>Me (...) have been pondering
>I (...) have been pondering
I don't give a FUCK what the modern day niggified internet has to say, you wouldn't say
>me have been pondering
now get your fucking shit together
We were talking about if 1st person pronouns have to go before 2nd/3rd person pronouns, not when object or subject pronouns should be used.
Esl confirmed.
Here's a cheat sheet so you can familiarize yourself.
Here's the cheat sheet.
Shut up, you dumb little queer. I only speak English, homosexual
It's a good thing you don't read/write it, or people might mistake you for an idiot.
Better think about it.