Originally posted by lat192004
Hello K

I cannot understand why this thread would offend you!!???!!The part about patience, let me explain: It's tolerance and patience, as trying to get a cat even to come over by me and sit down is a game of wits. Cats understand, they hear you OK, it's just they in their little independant head do as they darn well please. They are extremely intelligent (did you see the cat in" Riply"s Believe it or not " that eats his food with a fork!? And how about training cats to use a humans toilet? Cats are so smart they refuse to be controlled. They are basically wild animals that choose to live with us. If they decide they don't want to live with someone, it's out the house through the screen door, and find someone else.

PLEASE.. don't be offended and don't ever think dog owners are less that cat owners. Cat people, as they are called, communicate in much more subtle ways than you do with your dog. It's an entirely different world, I have had Beagle hunting dogs, Collie's, and cats. Cats are wierd, different, and it takes a special person to get along with them.

Angel, Sweetiecat, and all my feral friends, and myself, appologize if we have offened ANYONE here. Sorry we cat people are coming off as snobs to you. There was no intent for that, it's just, well, gosh, CAT PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT =^.^=

Have you ever seen the dogs rescue people from snow, fires, help fire fighters out on 9-11, and all of the other amazing tasks they perform?

We're controlled, by the police, by the government, by our teachers, by our bosses - does that make us less intelligent because we're controlled?

Some dogs are as independent and do as they please - and some cats are able to be "controlled." Does this make either one of them less intelligent?

The reason it offended me is because by the thread topic, you're saying dog owners are less intellectual/artistic/musical etc...

My brother owns two cats that I love just as much as if they were mine. My brother is no different than I am. He's not so much musical, he's not artistic, he's not intellectual.


What do you mean we communitcate in less subtle ways?