A dog is a superior pet to have then a cat.

...You are very opinionated aren't you? For the first argument, I was mainly talking about how a cat can help deal with anxiety.It has been proven that even petting a cat can lower one's blood pressure and help calm them, but in the case of being active, you are the one who is not correct.If you ask any veterinarian, they would tell you that it's imperative for a cat to stay active and have regular movement. Not all cats are "less active".Some cats leave their homes for a while, go hunting, or take a stroll around the neiborhood before they return home. When you think about that, you can imagine that the cat would actually be more active than the dog lying on the groung at home! Also, cats are much more active at dawn, dusk, and night. In the case that "walking a dog can make you more active" that is true, but it is not like you need a dog to walk, they just happen to be an excuse for walking, so I do not think that "being active" should even concern pets. In fact, you are wrong when you say that a person can not be active when they own a cat because some cats, like my own, will take walks with you too. They just do it on their own time. Let me ask you a question concerning argument 2: Do you even own a cat? You say that it is easy taking care of your dog, but can you really compare anything when you only own a dog? I happen to have 3 cats and one dog and let me tell you, all three cats are easier to take care of than my one dog!!! If anyone is the opinionated one, it is you! As for training, it is true that you can train a dog to do certain things, but you can just as well do that with a cat too! You keep saying that "it is easier to train a dog but hard to train a cat" but that is not true! The truth is that cats are just as good at learning as dogs are, so it is possible to train them, even though only few people do. This is partly because the cat"s traditional function, hunting and killing vermin, comes naturally to them, and they are actually more successful at this when left to their own instincts. Untrained dogs, on the other hand, are more of a hindrance than a help. Source: http://www.scienceaddict.com... Don't have any real proof you say? Take a look at these videos and prove me wrong! http://www.catchow.com... http://video.nationalgeographic.com... P.S. Why are you comparing all domestic cats in the world to a border collie? You yourself do not have the proof to say that a cat can not be trained as easily as a dog! For the third argument, why does it matter that the article was made by someone who pretended she was a cat? If anything, it proves that the person knows what she is talking about even more! She was not completly one sided either! And do not ignore the fact that Dogs have a more evolved social communication repertoire than cats, and that leads them to do things humans equate with being smarter," when in fact, it is just human preference. Do you understand? Humans just think the dog is smarter because they do things that we consider smart, not if it really is smart! For example, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan pitted a chimp against humans in the task of remembering strings of random numbers flashed on a screen. The chimp won. Does that mean chimps are smarter than humans? Another example; we think that when we tell the dog to sit, it is smarter than the cat who stands, but how on earth does this help the dog in any way? All it does is please us! In that case, when it comes to survival, the cat is smarter becuase it does not take orders from anyone, and instead follows its own instincts! Furthermore, if you told a obedient dog to jump off a bridge, it would most likly do it, why? Because of it's supposed "intellegence" to follow human commands. Well that's nice, exept that it died!!! You can not argue that in this case, the cat is the smarter animal. In the end however, I"m left to conclude that comparing dogs with cats is like asking who's smarter, musicians or mathematicians. Each does things the other can"t. It's a poorly conceived question, so it's incorrect to say dogs are smarter than cats, no matter how much developed the brain is. For the fourth argument... All I can say is I don't need proof. I mean, come on! You could ask anyone who has a dog about these issues and I guarantee that 90% of the people you ask will have at least one of these problems!!! If cats are hyper, then that means that they are bored, and want to play or they feel the need to mark their territory. They don't do it to piss us off, they do it because it is in their nature! All of your sources are from people who are experiencing that, but do you not think that the same thing is happening to people with dogs? If so, you are sadly mistaken: https://answers.yahoo.com... https://in.answers.yahoo.com... https://answers.yahoo.com... https://answers.yahoo.com... https://sg.answers.yahoo.com... Another thing: unlike cats, dogs destroy stuff not only because they might be bored, but because they, in fact, ENJOY destroying furniture and other household items. At least when cats destroy stuff, they are doing it because they feel it is necessary for their health, like a cat sharpening its claws on a couch. And really...KILL CHILDREN??? I think you are going a little too far when you start talking about that! That article you posted was a once in a life time event with two flaws you fail to recognize: 1. It was not 100% proven that it was the cat's fault and 2. If it was the cat's fault, then it was a mere ascendent! The cat did not purposly try to kill the kid, unlike some dogs who, GUESS WHAT? Bite and tear off the flesh of infants, children, and even full grown adults!!! Those attempts are no accindent. Another thing, that photo is most likely photo shopped; there is no way the cat could have gotten to all that paper by itself, someone must have littered it so it merily looked it the cat did it. If you want real pictures of destruction and harm, just take a look at these (CAUTION: veiw at your own risk, very violent): http://www.dog-bones.com... http://www.shezadmalik.com... http://www.dogsbite.org... http://abclocal.go.com... I promise you that those photos and videos were NOT photo shopped, they actually happened. For the conclusion, I have proved once again that cats are indeed (most of the time) a more peaceful animal than a dog because of their inability to harm a house or a human in the way a dog can. I have also proved that a more developed brain does not mean a smarter animal. In my conclusion, you have, in fact, NOT rendered my arguments: you merely gave me time to come up with better answers to counter attack yours with even more proof. I do not follow the deduction rules because I do not see how they affect the debate in any way. I also see no reason to create a new argument, since my opponent has yet to prove me wrong. And to sum up with the "forfeiting and deduction" thing, I am sorry, but I did not understand your rules. I did not think they mattered, since I figuered we could just debate in any way we wanted. (In other words, I am going to ignore them)