[pandafishowner]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Cats and dogs and all animals really deserve to be treated well. I think for anyone's value set to truly be meaningful you can't apply said values discriminately. At this point in my life I choose to not have a dog in my life, and yet I have cats, but I would be bothered equally by bad treatment of dogs as I would of cats. And yet, I put up with derogatory comments from friends (and family members, for that matter) who consider themselves "dog lovers" but think nothing about joking about killing cats or something. That sort of thing truly disgusts me..

I'm a cat person too. I've had my two cats for 12 and 10 years. We had dogs when I was a kid but I never bonded with any of them. I prefer my cats over a dog any day. I hear you on the friends/family and their "jokes" about cats.