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Post by todd on Oct 27, 2009 23:53:34 GMT
Tom said, in a recent twitter post, that "cats are rubbish and dogs are great", or something like that.
The webcomic certainly reflects his enthusiasm for dogs, given how many canids are in it: Reynardine (who's a double canid; he started off as a fox and is now a wolf), Coyote, Ysengrin, the Bound Dogs (the half-dog half-tree creatures from the Wood; they received that name in Chapter Twenty-four), Moddey Dhoo (and his fellow black dogs, who got their own page for the Bonus Page at the end of Chapter Sixteen).
But I thought it ironic that, while Tom says "cats are rubbish", one of his most popular characters (maybe even more popular than Annie) is named Kat (even if it's a different spelling), and even uses a cat's head as her symbol on the anti-gravity machine in Chapter Five.
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Post by idonotlikepeas on Oct 27, 2009 23:59:32 GMT
Cats are awesome. THERE I SAID IT.
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Post by Ulysses on Oct 28, 2009 0:18:48 GMT
Personally I'm a cat person. Dogs are all "Oh God give me attention!" but cats are just "I do what I want, don't need nobody. Back off, this is my chair" which for some reason I find endearing. They're also more willing to sit on your lap and be stroked than most dogs are, and I do like to stroke things...
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Post by Jiminiminy on Oct 28, 2009 1:35:18 GMT
In the same chapter, the motion sensor was a cat thing too, if you look at it. That's why it was meowing when it went off.
And in my experience, cats are generally very poor company. Never much liked them.
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Post by Mylian on Oct 28, 2009 3:20:20 GMT
In my experience, dogs generally smell bad. Cats generally don't.
Also, dogs tend to take up far too much of my personal space for comfort. The first thing a dog co-habitating with me will learn is the meaning of the phrase "go lay down".
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Post by wynne on Oct 28, 2009 3:27:55 GMT
Yeah, but cats will never let you play fetch with them or whatever. I mean, they're soft and pettable and all, but dogs are nicer. Even if dogs slobber all over you and smell bad and all that, you know they love you, whereas cats, in my experience, tend to be more "give me my food now go away" and scratch you.
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Post by Mylian on Oct 28, 2009 3:30:54 GMT
I don't want to play fetch. Dogs aren't "nicer", they're more codependent.
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Post by fuzzyone on Oct 28, 2009 3:43:00 GMT
Actually, I play fetch with my cat... Mostly with things like paperclips and ponytail holders... It's jsut a matter of appealing to the hunting instinct, and using the proper medium.
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Post by wynne on Oct 28, 2009 3:52:58 GMT
Aren't lasers (or flashlights) good for playing with cats? That's the word on the street, anyway. I don't want to play fetch. Dogs aren't "nicer", they're more codependent. Ah, but cats can't drag you out of burning buildings. Which dogs do. All the time. For the record, I don't dislike cats. They are very warm and fuzzy, I've met some perfectly nice ones that were lovely. I just like dogs better.
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Post by Mylian on Oct 28, 2009 4:06:50 GMT
You know what else can drag me out of burning buildings? Firefighters. And the neighborhood I'm in is full of cops and firefighters.
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Post by the bandit on Oct 28, 2009 4:18:10 GMT
Dogs are like men, cats are like women, and I'm a philogynist.
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Post by garlicgreens on Oct 28, 2009 4:31:00 GMT
You know what else can drag me out of burning buildings? Firefighters. And the neighborhood I'm in is full of cops and firefighters. But will a firefighter try and lick your face after having eaten it's own vomit? Or bark during the wee hours of the morning? Surely a mere firefighter cannot compete with the almighty canine. Cats steal souls and suck the breath out of babies so I am pretty sure they win anyways. They are also self cleaning!
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Post by wynne on Oct 28, 2009 6:45:02 GMT
My goodness. Go for a bit of good natured, self-directed sarcasm and suddenly we're debating the merits of dogs vs. firefighters. I've heard of the fabled Wrath of Cat Lovers, but I don't think I've seen it directly myself before. Soon we will have to start replacing all mention of cats and dogs with hot pink bunnies. (By the way, if I sound bitchy, I'm not trying to be. Really. I just type the way I talk, but on the internet tone doesn't always come across well. Plus, occasionally I'm really bad at recognizing others' sarcasm.)
And now we bring you back to ... whatever we were talking about before.
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Post by Casey on Oct 28, 2009 6:58:28 GMT
Wait... what exactly do you have against hot pink bunnies, HUH? You wanna make something of it? Put up yer dukes!
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Post by judgedeadd on Oct 28, 2009 7:00:28 GMT
I love cats.
Dogs, on the other hand, are [follows a long list of the wretched dogs' shortcomings, cut for purposes of sanity. - Management.]
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Post by Jiminiminy on Oct 28, 2009 11:10:30 GMT
Pigs are pretty great too.
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Post by fuzzyone on Oct 28, 2009 14:41:52 GMT
Especially in bacon form.
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Post by tyler on Oct 28, 2009 16:37:10 GMT
“There are no cats in UnLondon, for example, because they’re not magic and mysterious at all, they’re idiots.” - China Miéville
Of course, dogs are pretty dumb, too.
Having had both as pets, I'd have to say there really isn't a better.
They're like people. Fun to have around when they're not wrecking your stuff.
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Post by Mylian on Oct 28, 2009 19:02:48 GMT
I've heard of the fabled Wrath of Cat Lovers, but I don't think I've seen it directly myself before. Oh no no no, you entirely misunderstand me. It's not that I love cats and hate dogs. It's simply that cats tend to annoy me less than dogs do, by an order of magnitude.
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Post by Ulysses on Oct 28, 2009 19:16:48 GMT
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Post by Pig_catapult on Oct 28, 2009 22:02:18 GMT
Pigs are pretty great too. Agreed. ♥
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Post by noako on Oct 29, 2009 11:29:01 GMT
I like both.
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Post by eightyfour on Oct 29, 2009 12:53:31 GMT
But I thought it ironic that, while Tom says "cats are rubbish", one of his most popular characters (maybe even more popular than Annie) is named Kat (even if it's a different spelling), and even uses a cat's head as her symbol on the anti-gravity machine in Chapter Five. You forgot about the "meow! meow!" alarm sounds of Kat's motion detectors. ;D
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Post by Seth Thresher on Oct 29, 2009 19:02:24 GMT
Dog are pretty much the best. So goofy, yet so awesome.
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Post by p13volution on Oct 29, 2009 21:13:41 GMT
I do like to stroke things... *Runs out of thread screaming*
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Post by chiparoo on Oct 29, 2009 22:52:54 GMT
I love puppies and kitties! I get along with cats much better, though. My favorite thing about cats is how they THINK they're all graceful, when they're really not. they have so much personality that way
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Post by Robo Alchemist on Oct 30, 2009 12:31:05 GMT
Ok, so we can all agree that Cats and Dogs are good and bad in there own ways, and that one isn't better than the other, it's just a manner of perspective? If so, we can go ahead and resolve and dissolve any future meaningless arguments that might boil down from all of this.
Also, my family has taken ownership of all kinds of different animals, and my family is also in the medium-large range (with all of us watching the others like science experiments), so I have to say that I like all animals. "All animals are created equal. But some are more equal than others".
Overall, though, I find humans to be the most interesting...followed closely by tune-carrying and/or mimicking-type birds.
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Post by xanbcoo on Oct 30, 2009 19:21:49 GMT
Cats are jerks. But maybe that's just my experience with being scratched to hell by loads of cats in my life. Dogs definitely aren't as cute as cats, but they're way more responsive and playful. Ok, so we can all agree that Cats and Dogs are good and bad in there own ways, and that one isn't better than the other, it's just a manner of perspective? If so, we can go ahead and resolve and dissolve any future meaningless arguments that might boil down from all of this. OK everyone, stop having fun.
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Post by Robo Alchemist on Oct 30, 2009 21:49:07 GMT
I didn't mean that. I just don't want heated arguments arising over something that has very little to do with the comic in the first place. So we need to get a dog's mind into a cat's body, then we'd have the perfect pet.
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Post by tyler on Oct 30, 2009 21:51:38 GMT
Perfect pet: potty trained monkey who can make sandwiches.
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