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Dailyconfession.com is a site that allows people to anonymously confess their misdeeds and publish them on the internet. The denizens of the Talkback section tend to be fairly jaded by now. A man confessing to cheating on his wife with a 17 year old gets only mild disapproval. A person confessing to prefer eating out of hir dorm's trash can gets only a few raised eyebrows. A FtM transexual gets only mild surprise. A man wearing a pink tiara and asking his date to spank him and call him Darla gets only a few iffy comments.

But god forbid you say that cats are better than dogs 152 comments later, I'm getting thoroughly sick of the "Well! If only you met my preternaturally perfect pup, I am certain that you would change your mind. Don't make me get out the 12 gigabytes of pictures I have of him."

Cats Rule! Dogs Drool! How true!!!!! Cats remind me of girls because we are outgoing, smart, independent, and DON'T TAKE ANY CRAP FROM ANYBODY!!!! Plus, dogs need attention ALL the time, and it can be so ANNOYING when it's like 3:oo AM and your dog starts barking like he's just seen the cat from the "firey pit"!!!!

This person loses the stupid stereotypes competition. Not to mention the RANDOM capitalization of WORDS competition. I would also like to point out that I have been woken up at least ten times in the last month by my cat throwing up on my bed and would like to request that if she thinks cats are better than dogs, she can clean up cat vomit from my bed cover at five in the morning. On the weekend.

...Please?

OK i sooo dont understand whoever said cats smell like crap. i mean HELLO?]? dogs are the stinky ones that stink up the god damned house. they SMELL SO BAD! and slober and poop and pee everywhere. i mean at least cats are kitty litter trained..dogs are just annoying! they bark and dont shut up too! ugh

This person has obviously never cleaned out a litterbox.

Dogs are very clean... they even eat their own vomit to save you having to do it.

Gee, I wish my dog would clean up her own messes like that. Or not.

dogs are NOT stupid, or gross...why would police use them if they were STUPID, okay i admit, SOME dogs are stupid (my dog once ran into a glass door) , well...same with every other animal, SOME cats are stupid, SOME people are stupid...shoot(my cousin ran into a glass door) just because you've come across some stupid licking dogs do NOT mean ALl of the are like that. Do you see cats rescueing people? no. Do you see cats guarding their house? No. Do you see cats smelling out drugs? uh no...im not sayin cat r worse then dogs, dogs r just born with this talent, they cant change it. the only thing i have against cats is that im allergic to them... WELL trained dogs do not lick u all the time, well trained dogs do not jump on u, and when dogs sleep, they do not slobber all over u and lick u in ur sleep...only certain breeds slobber(i think slobberings gross) but that does NOT mean ALL dogs r gross okay? think about it, in a way, its like saying, oh i dont like these kinds of ppl because they do this...thats just not right, u can like cats more, but dont hAte things

...I can't read this. I think I'm sort of glad of that.

Dogs show you love.All cats do is purr and rub their stinky scent on you.Not only that,their food smells like sh!t.Cats are disgusting if a pregnant woman is allergic to cats,she gets sick.

You know, there's just some times when someone gives you so many opportunities to point out the flaws in their logic, you can't help but laugh. I mean for one thing, it's not like, as the cat's owner, you aren't perfectly free to, you know, pick out non-stinky cat food.

I hate dogs for all those reasons and the fact that our corrupt government trains them to sniff out the pot, thus driving up prices. Destroy all dogs!

At last, someone with their priorities straight. Or not.

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	the_clansmen 2004-12-31 09:39 am UTC (link)
	...I'm glad that the members of the site consider being transsexual a misdeed. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	chaimonkey 2004-12-31 09:51 am UTC (link)
	I think the transsexual himself thought it a misdeed. He submitted it as such, after all - the members only comment on the "confessors' sins." Besides, it got mild commentary. Meaning they really didn't think it much of a "misdeed" at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the_clansmen 2004-12-31 09:57 am UTC (link)
	Actually, that was more what I meant. Or rather, at least one community member thought it was a misdeed. He is an idiot and I would like to kick him a few times. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chaimonkey 2005-01-01 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Well, sometimes folks of alternative sexualities or other social taboos reflect the negative opinion of the surrounding community onto themselves. Why else would we joke that we're all going to hell? Anywho, it is rather douchey that people do consider it a misdeed at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the_clansmen 2005-01-01 12:54 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I probably shouldn't have gotten so irritated about that, but how are we supposed to convince society to accept us if we can't accept ourselves? Dah. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chaimonkey 2005-01-01 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	No prob, I unnerstand the gut reaction. And what this country needs most is a big dose of acceptance. le sigh. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	redwarrior 2005-01-03 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, I'd rather go to hell than to heaven. I don't want to get preached at in the afterlife either. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chaimonkey 2005-01-04 12:51 am UTC (link)
	Ah, but there's no more need for preaching! It's utter bliss! (brain-washing much? unless it's unlimited chocolate of course. but that's gluttony, so phooey.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	redwarrior 2005-01-09 12:49 am UTC (link)
	And I want to fuck for all eternity...but that's lust... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	redwarrior 2005-01-03 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	~~Being a tranny myself,~~ I wonder what kind of dumbass tranny would consider a part of his identity a misdeed. 0__O Oh, wait...if he's a straight FtM, did his parents send him off to electroshock therapy when he first thought he was a lesbian? >3 (Reply to this)(Parent)

	beandelphiki 2005-01-01 12:30 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I got stopped right there for a minute. goes back to read the wank (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kookaburra 2004-12-31 10:29 am UTC (link)
	.... I love my cats, and freely admit they're dumb as dirt. Why, Abbott regularly eats anything he can fit in his mouth and then has lively vomiting sessions. At three in the morning. And all the dogs I've had have NEVER eaten anything other than dog food, and showed incredible intelligence/trainability. (Reply to this)(Thread)

squib
2004-12-31 11:30 am UTC (link)

My husband's stepfather's dogs are dumb as dirt, will eat anything they can gobble up, and get lost trying to find the front door. My late Persian, OTOH, walked on lead and sat on command.

But one of my current cats, Osama, is so dumb he can't figure out how to pull in his claws while walking across carpet and sounds like moving Velcro. Half the time he can't find a treat even if you drop in almost in front of him. Then there's Midori, my friend's cat, who gets lost in a bathtub and cries piteously until someone moves the curtain and "rescues" her.

I think there are plenty of examples of smart and stupid among both cats and dogs, and am completely flummoxed by the arguing people do on both sides.

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	khym_chanur 2004-12-31 01:39 pm UTC (link)
	My late Persian, OTOH, walked on lead* and sat on command.* For a momment I thought you meant "lead" as in the metal, and thought "Well, walking on a metal like lead is a lot easier than walking on water". (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kookaburra 2004-12-31 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	I know- why can't people just accept that some people prefer certain species as pets? It's insane. (Reply to this)(Parent)

dodyskin
2004-12-31 11:33 am UTC (link)

Yeah, my cat's stupid. It's obvious. He's scared of the dark, spends half the time trying to get in the sink/bath/toilet and the other half crying because he's wet. He runs into the seat of the sofa because he can't comprehend 'under'. He's thick as two short planks and his favourite food is houmous. So what? He's bootiful and he pretends to love me very convincingly.

Dogs have to be walked.And trained. Fuck that shit.

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	kookaburra 2004-12-31 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	The pretend love is worth it all, isn't it? (Reply to this)(Parent)

beandelphiki
2005-01-01 12:47 am UTC (link)

Heh. I have quite the range with my four cats. One is dumber than a rock, one is very intelligent and the other two are in between.

The intelligent one taught the other three:

a) How to climb ladders that are standing in a near-vertical position by weaving up the steps. It's hard to describe, and bizarre to watch. (The other cats had ample opportunity to figure this one out on their own, but apparently did not.)

b) How to get the garbage can open by standing on the step-lever. Free dinner!

c) How to get cans of treats out of a closed cabinet. (Get up on the counter. Insert paw into the door handle and pull open. Knock down treat container. Bite plastic lid off, bite through foil. Dine. My mother actually didn't interfere because she was so fascinated by the show.)

And so on. She played fetch from the time she was a teeny-tiny kitten. She seems to be the only one with a long enough memory to try to get revenge: when one of the other cats sneak-attacks her, she makes certain to get that cat back in exactly the same way later that day. (Hard to prove it's really "revenge" and not random, though.) And I'm certain she knows how doorknobs work - several times, I've seen her sitting on a counter trying to turn the knob in her paws. So for a cat, she's quite smart.

On the other hand, the dumb one is just so stupid it boggles me. I like to play this game with him where I'll sloooowly tilt my head from side to side and he'll copy me. Then I'll suddenly snap my head to the other side. He never follows this, and in trying to get his head the right way around, he'll tilt so far to one side he'll fall over.

Yeah. Cats are funny.

*stops babbling about his cats*

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	distractogirl 2005-01-01 04:10 am UTC (link)
	fangirls your cats Mine are thick as... something very thick that isn't what I was originally going to compare them to. I wish something would come along and teach my kitties that not everything has to be done by me... (Reply to this)(Parent)

bitca
2005-01-01 09:05 pm UTC (link)

My husband has seen our Athena stretch up on her back legs to get her paws on our front door (we're in an apartment) and try and turn the knob. I'm convinced that if she had opposable thumbs, she'd be gone in a heartbeat.

However, she's also the most graceless cat I've ever seen. Lots of attempts to walk on/across things (like counters and the back of a couch/futon) fail because she can't balance herself.

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	loopywafflehead 2004-12-31 01:26 pm UTC (link)
	9) Who hates dogs?! You don't even like puppies? You can't be human. Thanks to your confession I am now going outside to find a cat and punt it across my front lawn. Best comment ever. dies laughing (Reply to this)

isntitironic
2004-12-31 04:13 pm UTC (link)

I loathe dogs. I can't stand to be near them. The big ones are terrifying and the small ones are repulsive. I will cross the street rather than come within twenty feet of a dog. People are always thrusting their dear little pooches at me and saying, "HOW can you be afraid of Fifi?", while Fifi glares at me with little piggy black eyes full of the malice of ages and silenty vows to destroy me.

As far as I have ever been able to determine, this stems from an incident in early childhood, when a monster three times my size chased me screaming down the street. And then while I clung sobbing to my mother's leg, the slavering hellhound's owner fondled its ears and cooed that poor, misunderstood Puppykins just wanted to play. I had nightmares about that damned dog for years. As its owner led it away, it turned back and gave me this look of pure evil: "you may have been able to hide behind Mommie this time, little human, but next time I'm off my leash you'll end up buried in the back yard with all the other small children who crossed paths with me!"

Am I still evil for being a lover of cats?

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beandelphiki
2005-01-01 12:58 am UTC (link)

Am I still evil for being a lover of cats?

Nope.

When people ask me why I like cats and not dogs, I just say, "I was jumped on by a guard dog when I was seven."

Luckily, it was trained well enough that it did not seriously hurt me, but only kept me pinned until it was ordered off me, and just snarled in my face every time I tried to move or make a noise. However, you'd think it might have been trained not to jump on children.

And my father and I had been invited to the place, so it wasn't as if I wasn't where I was supposed to be.

Aaaand...that usually shuts them up. Usually.

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virago
2005-01-01 04:19 am UTC (link)

No, you're allowed to love one and not the other. That's pretty normal. Your assumption that they're all disgusting is a bit much, but eh, you're allowed.

Just know that other people think differently, and let them do so. "I don't want to get within six miles of a dog" is fine; "I shot a dog down the street because I hate dogs, LOL" or "all people who like dogs are morons" - not so much.

Me, I just hate the stupid stereotypes. "lol gurls r like kitties n boys are like dogs lololol!" Shut the fuck up. Animals' temperaments vary, and people's personalities vary even more. I hate this stupidity more than nearly anything.

I like all the fluffies, personally. But I hate stupid pet owners who don't know how to keep their animals under control, or don't have courtesy around other people or understand that some people just don't like their Precious. ~~It's kind of like bad parenting, in a way...~~ no, nobody heard that.

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isntitironic
2005-01-01 05:39 am UTC (link)

Your assumption that they're all disgusting is a bit much, but eh, you're allowed.

I'm in 'irrational phobia' terretory there, I know. I'm fine with dogs in the abstract. I have characters in my stories who like dogs, and I can write about them (and their dogs) and that's okay. I just can't stand real ones. I guess I could get some kind of therapy for that, but it just doesn't seem important enough to be worth the money.

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	virago 2005-01-01 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	Yay. See, that's sensible. I guess there's some sort of therapy; it's like any other phobia. But as long as you can avoid them it's probably not worth it, yeah. I used to have a phobia about millipedes, but seriously, how often does that come up? (Reply to this)(Parent)

coyote
2004-12-31 05:43 pm UTC (link)

To cats are superior to dogs is simply ridiculous. I've owned both, though I prefer cats...

Of my two cats, Misto would probably have taken over the world by now if he had opposable thumbs. Ginger, on the other hand, has been outsmarted by her catnip mousie on several occasions. However, on the flips side, Misto still hasn't figured out where I keep the cat treats or how to walk on cabinets, whereas Ginger always sniffs out the treats within a few hours of my hiding them and is an expert practicioner of Death From Above.

In closing... cats and dogs are like humans. You can't stereotype them, because someone will always know someone who shatters it.

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	sesana 2005-01-02 06:12 am UTC (link)
	Would that be Misto as in Mistofoles? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	coyote 2005-01-02 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	Yes. Mistoffeles J. (Jacob) Krueger, to be precise. ^_^ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sesana 2005-01-03 06:47 am UTC (link)
	And I probably know where the Jacob came from, too. Great name for a cat! (Reply to this)(Parent)

electricchick
2004-12-31 07:30 pm UTC (link)

One of my cats, Wink, is one of the smartest cats I've owned and can manipulate us to do whatever he wants us to. His sister, Panda, will stick her head under a faucet and then be confused as to why her head is wet. When I argue with someone, our third cat, Casey, will start hissing at my opponent and come and comfort me afterwards. It all depends on the cat.

On the other hand, my cousin's dog regularly knocks me down and tries to eat my face with her tongue. Out of all the dogs I know, even the little ones try and jump on me, even the ones who won't jump on anyone else. I accept that there are dog lovers in the world, I just wish they would stop foisting their opinions and their pets on me, and I'll respond by giving them the same courtesy.

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ladysorka
2004-12-31 10:22 pm UTC (link)

I could never, ever live with a dog. This is not because I hate them.

This is because I am absolutely terrified of them. Dogs come up to me and I stand stock still and don't move. Big dogs jump on me and I'm likely to go catatonic. Even small yippy dogs will make me keep my feet distinctly off the floor.

Dogs don't love me. They're developing a secret plan to kill me horribly. I just know they're going to get me someday.

At least my cat won't try to eat me until after I'm dead.

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	luckdragonfujur 2005-01-01 01:45 am UTC (link)
	smooches icon Is like the cutest thing ever! ^o^ (Reply to this)(Parent)

atalantapendrag
2004-12-31 11:42 pm UTC (link)

I'm very much a cat person, but I don't dislike dogs in general. My last ex had a guide dog, and Abbott (the dog) was the sweetest, smartest, most patient and eager to please creature imaginable. He put up with my surly cat Molly smacking him around, and put up with being stalked and nibbled by my goofy Anya when she was a kitten.

When I volunteered at an animal shelter I did a lot of dog walking, and interacted with lots of different dogs. Some were sweet, some were ill-tempered, some were intimidating, and a very few I'd have adopted if I could. But nearly all the cats had me wrapped around their littlest claw.

So, yeah, dogs are fine, I can make friends with someone else's dog, I can even be happy living with someone who has a dog, but for me personally it's cats all the way.

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	drworm 2005-01-01 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Screw all these people! The Aye-Aye is the greatest animal on Earth, period. In a pinch, rats more than acceptable. Most of the time, they're frighteningly intelligent. When they aren't, they're generally inbred and beautiful (rather like people). (Reply to this)(Thread)

	littlest_lurker 2005-01-01 07:03 am UTC (link)
	Apparently skunks make excellent house pets, once their stink-glands are removed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	adora_spintriae 2005-01-01 11:52 am UTC (link)
	Gnuhfuhguh. Sorry, automatic reaction to icon. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	drworm 2005-01-01 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	I worked with a guy who had a pet skunk! He brought in pictures to show us and everything. It was extremely awesome. But he told me not to get one because the maintenance was time-consuming and the cost of their upkeep was pretty steep. Special food, etc. I dunno, I think he just didn't want to share in the skunk love. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	meshou 2005-01-03 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	Second the "gnannngf" at the icon. Dude(ette), Elijah Wood is too damn perfect for that role. For serious. I threw up a little in my mouth when I thought of him playing that guy and the smile and blurhf... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	teratologist 2005-01-02 06:26 am UTC (link)
	Actually, the Great Auk is the greatest animal (formerly) on earth. But you are quite right about rats. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2005-01-02 03:34 am UTC (link)
	This is almost as good as the "Childed vs Childfree" debates. (Reply to this)

	teratologist 2005-01-02 06:30 am UTC (link)
	I prefer cats to dogs, not so much because cats are smarter, but because dogs have too much psychology. If I wanted to deal with loads of shit about separation anxiety and potty training issues and fighting to be alpha, I'd hang around with actual human beings. (Reply to this)

	dana 2005-01-02 12:12 pm UTC (link)
	I had the cats are better then dogs fight, along with screaming, pulling hair and crying when I was 8. I'm a bit over it now. (Reply to this)

	redwarrior 2005-01-03 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	Jesus, why can't you have BOTH?? It may sound like a novel idea to those asshats, but an animal companion is an animal companion. End of story. (Reply to this)