Comments on: Personal finance, not today.

By: Jake Stichler

Jake Stichler — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:20:13 +0000

If anything, I think dogs are *less* mature than cats. Dogs always need humans around to let them out of the house and whatnot. Cats, on the other hand, are completely self sufficient - give them a steady supply of food and water, and a clean litterbox, and they'll leave you alone. And you can leave them alone - for days at a time, if you have to, and they'll be fine. Whereas a dog, you need to find someone to come take care of them a couple times a day while you're on vacation or whatever.

Also, as mentioned above, it completely depends on how cats have been raised. My family had something on the order of 10 cats (I can't count them all anymore) at our peak. They stayed off the counters, off of tables, so on and so forth, because we raised them like that. My two cats, on the other hand, I never trained at all, because frankly I don't care. So yes, my two cats are always all over the place.

And they *can* obey commands, it's just that very few people bother to go to the trouble of training a cat like a dog.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:03:25 +0000

I think we all have a little obsessive compulsive in us. I have to have things lined up on my desk with other things, like the edge of something must be flush with what its sitting on. I also am a bit of a clean freak, I used to work a really dirty job (I'm talking animal feces dirty) and I would come home and shower every night and every morning. Once I left that job, I have a real hard time touching anything dusty, dirty, etc and I wash my hands like 50x a day. I really cant stand touching chicken even though I cook and have to. I wash like 50x during preparing chicken, its so disgusting to me.
I have more but I will post about them or something

By: Punch Debt In The Face

Punch Debt In The Face — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:16:11 +0000

Doctor- I changed my cat verbiage to be a little less offensive. And you just went up 10 cool points in my book because you love doctor pepper, its my favorite and I wish I could go to the museum!!!

By: Dr. Faith

Dr. Faith — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:46:49 +0000

P.S. I'm a huge fan of Dr Pepper, so I appreciate your image. I actually made a special trip to Wako, Texas JUST to visit the Dr. Pepper museum. =)

By: Dr. Faith

Dr. Faith — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:45:09 +0000

I have a problem with people who say they hate something because they're allergic to it. I am allergic to bananas, mellons, nuts, and avocados.

But I NEVER say that I hate them. I don't have enough experience with them to say that I HATE them. (And from what I hear, I'm missing out on the avocado front)

Mr Baseball is constantly saying that he "hates" cats, but he's never spent more than 10 minutes in a room with one to know if he ACTUALLY hates the cat or if he just hates the reaction his body has when he's in the same room as one. Very different things.

Also, it sounds like your friends didn't do a very good job of raising their cats. Mine don't sit on the TV or the counters. And there are plenty of dogs that would (and do) get up on the table and the counters if people let them, just dog owners tend to spend more time training their dogs because there is SO MUCH you have to train a dog to do - whereas with a cat you pretty much don't have to teach them anything if you don't want to and they'll still be "ok".