February
2007
Cats and Dogs
Several years ago, there was a Super Bowl commercial for Mountain Dew (click here to watch the commercial on YouTube). There is a guy (who actually happens to be my actor cousin) riding a dirt bike, chasing a cheetah over the rocky terrain. He finally catches up to the cheetah, pulls out an empty Mountain Dew can, and says, “Bad cheetah!”
The best line is the last one, where the biker’s friend says, “See? That’s why I’m not a cat person!”
I was thinking about cats and dogs today, when I read an online friend’s blog and saw that her family adopted a new dog. I’m absolutely a dog person, not a cat person. There have only been two cats who have tolerated me: KittyKat, whom I used to watch in high school when her family went out of town, and Buttons, my best friend’s cat who lived with us one month when my allergic husband was away.
My dog now is Princess Buttercup, an adopted spoiled rotten cocker spaniel who is a great companion to me. Why is she so great? Well, she’s loyal while also slightly neurotic (she likes to tear up used kleenex while I’m out and leave the pieces out for me to clean up when I come home). She’s always home with me, and she responds to my voice. She comes to me when I call her. She’s a good lap warmer when I’m on the couch. And she listens.
There is no doubt who is Princess’s master. It’s me. Always. My husband says when I’m gone, she goes upstairs and sleeps. She doesn’t really come to life, not really, until I’m home.
Mark Twain has a quotation about dogs that I absolutely adore:
“Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
I hope that I’m as loyal to Christ as my dog is to me.
So, are you a cat person? Or a dog person?
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Written By: Pattie
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Dog, dog, dog! Though, I did have a cat for about a year that we claimed was half-dog. That was almost as good.
The sad part is that my Husband is *decidedly* not a dog person. I am currently praying we would become more like-minded in this, whatever that may mean.