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Do dogs or cats make the better pet? After centuries of debate, still no agreement has been reached. Which are the most affectionate? The most intelligent? Here is a collection of observations which may (or may not) help you decide:

∙ If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer - Alfred North Whitehead

∙ Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow - Jeff Valdez

∙ Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you - Mary Bly

∙ No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens - Abraham Lincoln

∙ The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - Doug Larson

∙ Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God - Unknown

∙ I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals - Winston Churchill

∙ Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this - Unknown

∙ You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog - Harry S. Truman

∙ Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously - Louis J. Camuti

∙ To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs - Aldous Huxley

∙ I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves - August Strindberg

∙ Never sit with a cat on your lap when your wife turns on the vacuum cleaner - John Small

∙ Some days you’re the dog, and some days you’re the hydrant - Unknown

∙ Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls - Phyllis Diller

∙ People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life - Faith Resnick

∙ Dogs do not use older computers. They can’t stick their heads out of Windows 98 - Unknown

∙They say the dog is man’s best friend. I don’t believe that. How many of your friends have you neutered? - Larry Reeb

∙ A cat isn’t fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor - Arthur Bridges

∙ I have a great dog. She’s half Lab, half pit bull. A good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she’ll bring it back to me - Jimi Celeste

∙ Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea - Robert A. Heinlein

∙ Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat - Lillian Johnson

∙ If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them - Phil Pastoret

∙ Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window! - Steve Bluestone