Cats are Better than dogs

Thanks to my opponent for his opening remarks. I'll give my arguments before refuting Pro's.C1: Dogs are medically beneficial to their owners. A study by Dr. Deborah Wells explains that dog owners empirically live longer and healthier lives than cat owners (1). This is due to a variety of factors, but mainly due to dogs encouraging owners to exercise and their ability to detect certain medical problems before they become prevalent. "As well as lower blood pressure and cholesterol, she said dog-owners suffered fewer minor ailments and serious medical problems. There was also the suggestion that dogs could aid recovery from serious illnesses such as heart attacks, and act as 'early warning' to detect an approaching epileptic seizure. The ownership of a dog can also lead to increases in physical activity and facilitate the development of social contacts, which may enhance both physiological and psychological human health in a more indirect manner."C2: Dogs learn tricksI think its fairly obvious that its easier to teach dogs tricks than cats. Cats mostly just want to sleep and slouch around (lol) but dogs are much more likely to get engaged in something. While cats can possibly learn to do some things, most people don't even attempt it and it would take much longer anyway. In some cases, dogs can learn to do really cool things, like fetch the newspaper (2), open a door (3), or even grab you a beer! (4)C3: Dogs are more outgoingYou can pretty much take a dog anywhere. They don't really care where they're going as long as they're going somewhere. They greatly enjoy both the outdoors and indoors, contrary to cat which for the most part are inside pets. Also, dogs get you more chicks! The attractiveness of a dog can end up being projected onto yourself (5). But the most important thing is that they can draw girls' attention, thus giving you a chance to engage in conversation, ask them out and eventually swoop in for the kill. Whatever that means.With that said, I'll give more arguments for dogs as I go over my opponent's.1. " (cats) can take care of them selves, you don't have to work as much as would for a dog"Dogs do a surprisingly good job of taking care of themselves as well. They clean themselves just as regularly as cats. Now, dogs do generally get dirtier, but this is because they're outside more often, so it isn't a reflection on them. They also learn fairly quickly how to tell you they need to go outside. Some dogs run around randomly, some bark, some nudge you, but they all have some way of letting you know they need to go. If you leave a dog in a room with some bones for a period of time, then do the same with a cat, they will both be roughly the same when you come back.2. " in some cases they express the about the same amount of love that a dog does."This is actually an argument for me, since he specifically said that cats are only as affetionate as dogs in "some cases". This tacitly concedes that on balance, dogs are better in this area.3. "A cat is a better choice if you have to get up early to go to work, and come back from work late."Most people work standard 40 a week hours because employers don't like paying overtime. So being gone all day doesn't apply very often. For people who work standard hours, dogs are fine because you can just put them in a kennel while you're gone. They actually don't mind it that much and will usually just sleep it off. If you have a smaller dog, you don't even have to lock them up because they can't reach any stuff you wouldn't want to be broken.In any case, you don't always have to be with your dog because they'll just sleep off the time you're not there.4. Pro brings up that dogs can poop on the carpet. Well so can cats. I've had several and believe me, they're not always accurate :/But you can turn this argument too, because its better for a dog to pee on the carpet than cats. Cat urine is extremely strong and over time can resemble ammonia. Its incredibly difficult to remove from the carpet because the urine crystallizes over time, which makes removing the entire patch of carpet necessary in some cases (6). 5. Both dogs and cats shed. The good thing about dogs is that they're more susceptible to "unusual" methods of hair removal. For instance, you can take the hose portion of a vacuum cleaner and go all over the dog with it to remove hair. You may think it would freak them out, but they're too simple minded to comprehend danger from it. If thats too extreme, you can just take one of those rollers you use to get hairs off your clothes, and use it on the dog. Also, there are several brands of dog food which are specialized to reduce shedding.I thank my opponent again for his response and look forward to his next one.1. http://news.bbc.co.uk...2. http://bitURL.net...3. http://bitURL.net...4. http://bitURL.net...5. http://amog.com...6. http://www.cat-urine.net...