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      Lucky. Your cat faces you while standing on your chest screaming its head off. I wake up to the 'ol one eye winker.

      On occasion though, that pic is accurate and so worth it.

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      Make it 5, and only one or two are screaming. The rest are nipping at my fingers or nose, throwing paws in my mouth or on my eyes, or circling around my legs. All because we want breakfast, and breakfast time is “whenever moms alarm goes off, or we wake her up”.

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    As someone with both, I actually really appreciate that my dog forces me out on regular walks.

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      Yep, without my dog there are days I would not get out of bed, and feel like shit because of it. Even if it’s winter, it’s good for my mental health.

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    My dog doesn’t have a shit box in my house that I have to clean constantly. That makes up for the 3 months it’s a little cold out.

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      Are you saying you don’t clean up after your dog? Otherwise, you’re cleaning up shit daily. Litter boxes are not typically cleaned daily(constantly) and they make auto litter boxes that clean themselves.

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        Litter boxes are not typically cleaned daily

        Your house smells like cat shit, you are simply nose blind to it. Please clean up after your cat shits.

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        Small dog in a fenced yard, picking up after him is a non issue. His business breaks down in a matter of a couple of weeks and there’s never enough to become a problem. If he goes while on a walk, i pick it up.

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          It’s just your specific case. If you have an outdoor cat you also don’t have to maintain a cat toilet.

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            No, I’m representative of all dog owners. If a cat is left outside, it is technically a form of mountain lion, which does not count.

            Dogs rool, cats drool.

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            I don’t think it’s good to have outdoor cats. They’re very destructive to small animals (songbirds included) in the area.

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          His business breaks down in a matter of a couple of weeks and there’s never enough to become a problem.

          Your yard and shoes smell like dog shit, you’re simply nose blind to it. Please clean up after your dog shits.

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            Have we met? You have absolutely no basis to make that claim. My yard and shoes smell fine, my sense of smell is fantastic. Why don’t you worry about your own yard rather than making assumptions about mine?

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      Clearly you don’t live as far north as I do. :P

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        Nah, it gets plenty cold here, I’m mostly just playing around with the classic dog people vs cat people war.

        I’m fortunate to have a fenced yard and a dog that absolutely does not fuck with the cold. He’s out, does his duty, then back in within like 2 minutes.

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          Well, for reference, the city I currently live in has a -19C/-3F minimum average temperature.

          I generally prefer cats over dogs for other reasons, though.

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    Nothing wakes a cat owner faster than the sound of hyuk hyuk HYUK HYUUURK on the only piece of carpet in the house.

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    cats: hate rain

    dogs: hate rain

    me: hates rain

    all of us: have fucking jobs, who the hell is lounging around in bed all damn morning

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      Dogs poop in the house sometimes too. Anything living will poop in your house if you let it in for long enough. It’s nice they are considerate enough to go in a box and not in the floor

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      But human poop is perfectly fine? You saw that one Mythbusters episode, right? Feces is everywhere.

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      Cat flap in a door solves this, but you do need a vented room to keep their litter box that’s not a garage because those usually need a fire rated door.

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    You’re funny. The cat woke me up for food is the reason the dog got to pee outside before the sun came up.

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    Y’all in this thread need to get yourselves automatic feeders and start putting out wet food during awake times and not the crack of dawn.

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      I will never understand letting your pets dictate wakeup hours, except in the special circumstance that it’s a puppy because they can’t hold their bladder. My cats have never woken me up for food. In fact my cats and dogs have always known that if they annoy me, I will stay in bed longer out of spite. I will wake up and lay in bed until I am ready to get up, and no pet is going to annoy me into feeding them. The closest I’ve ever had to a pet waking me up is my current golden who doesn’t wake me up for food, he wakes me up to cuddle, but is fine if I go back to sleep.

      It’s not about what you feed them or when, it’s about setting boundaries. We feed canned food morning and night. Our pets sleep on the bed, and know they will get their food when I’m ready to be awake.

      • My cat knows she only gets food when I get up.

        Once she gets hungry she doesn’t give a fuck about that and starts messing with everything next to the bed. I never give in to that and just put her outside the bedroom, but next time she will try doing it again anyway. She’s determined to get her food, even if her ways have never worked. She might just be doing it out of spite tbh.

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      As far as my cats are concerned, any time there’s not wet food available is awake time.

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    So, have an invigorating walk with your buddy or wake up with red eyes and a runny nose, but at least you were warm and comfortable?

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          In my experience it depends. Most cats smell better, but I had one cat that wasn’t great at cleaning herself and definitely had a bit of a stink

          Conversely, my dog is a northern breed and doesn’t have much natural smell, plus he likes to roll in my fresh sheets, so he usually smells like fabric softener

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      Imagine doing laundry? Yeah the fur sheds, but you just clean more often to compensate, it’s fine.

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        Nah you can’t do laundry fast enough to not sleep in fur constantly. My dog has his own bed and he’s short haired and still I have have several air purifiers and clean at least once per day to maintain everything. So people who sleep with cats are straight up hoarder territory of nasty imo lol - tho I don’t judge as connecting with an animal like this might be well worth the mess for some people.