Are you saying that nerds don't like going out, and can get too buried in their hobbies, so having a pet you need to walk several times a day is a no-go?
If you aren't, well I am!
I love walking and I do it every day, but I don't want to have to do it.
I got a cat at 18 for the same reason I don't want kids lmao. I like kids. I also like dogs. But I like leaving the house for more than 8 hours more and for that you need a cat.
"Everyone lives in apartments so no one has a yard to let their dog out in"
We must set ourselves apart from reddit. Birb content only.
Birb tax! This is my handsome muscovy duck Antonio. He's great
Antonio is an excellent name for such a dapper duck.
Thank you!
Like aggressively, or did it just wany food? My boy harasses me when he wants snacks lol
I see lol. They are dramatic birds. I gave mine the last of their food one day(I picked up more later that evening) and Antonio got into the empty bag and pouted. I removed him from the bag and he grabbed it and threw it and looked grumpy. Mind you, he had a bowl full of food. He just likes eating from a bag. When I brought the new bag of feed home, he got super in my face and was hella impatient when I was opening it.
He is lol. He's by far my fave out of my 10 ducks. He's also the oldest. He turned 4 this year but still acts like I'm his mama lol.
Why do you have a pet dinosaur?
Just for fun
Birbs are at the very core of the internet. They are the stuff of the deep web.
I’m picturing some sort of high tech containment field. Perhaps somewhere deep in a sub-basement laboratory at the Gore Naval Research Base in Antarctica. At the center, held aloft by powerful magnets, are two birds rapidly spinning, emitting an eerie blue glow. A series of tubes, illuminated from within by this mysterious ether, branch off in all directions. This is the core.
It's the Ornitho-Accellerator
Ah yes... 👀
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: birdsarentreal@lemmy.world
That gives me an error the URL did not. Idk what I'm doing I guess.
Yes, I see this is a bot, but not sure if other users have this issue too?
Using Voyager (Wefwef), the second link opened for me directly on my Lemmy instance. So I could directly comment / subscribe etc.
Liftoff handled both URLs and gives an option to view it on my home instance.
That’s handy! Voyager/Wefwef doesn’t have that yet.
Yeah, the “fix” the bot provided is just text for me in Memmy. But the URL I posted works perfect. I imagine from the web this is more useful.
That includes birds with arms, yeah?
Arms are not mandatory but they are encouraged.
Kbin agrees. Robin is our unofficial mascot (I think)
I’m struggling to figure out how much of this is photoshop
It’s a birb eating an apple.
Ik it's probably real but something about it feels pretty unnatural. Maybe the background's contrast against the birb, the smallness of the claws, the apple looking really smooth, the birb looking really smooth...
I think the apple looks so evenly lit it seems unreal, but a bird holding a piece of fruit is such an easy situation to create I feel like it'd be harder to Photoshop that than it would be to just give a bird a piece of fruit for real.
I have noticed a similar correlation, at different places and in different times. The internet loves cats. Humankind loves dogs and cats. You switch from one to the other at some point of growth.
No offence to dogs, but cats are perfection.
Biased view from owner of 2 asshole cats.
The cats own you. You are their CatGPT. Thats why tech people are surrounded by cats.
This is true. When I meow back to cats I base my next meow on probability read out from the cat's reaction
So internet people = cats
Humane people = dogs*
*(and cats)
Finally proof that the ancient Egyptians had access to technology beyond their reach.
What does that make the cat lady with 10 cats?
A sysadmin.
10 internet.
Pure toxoplasmosis
Introverts are more likely to be online, and also more likely to have a cat than a dog.
I have learned to love both equally after being raised mostly a cat person, meeting MANY dogs as a lucky thing through work... and now I find myself on Lemmy.
I have come full circle.
Where do you work and are they hiring
So what you're saying is when dog content out numbers cat content, its time to look for the next new platform?
I just don't share pictures of my dogs because it would be easy to identify me (to anyone who knows me or lives around me) based on their unique appearances and names.
Dog and social security card tax!!
You all don't even know what you're missing out on! I have the most beautiful little ladies. Alas.
You can just share the picture but mirror it horizontally then nobody will be able to tell it's you. #forehead
Also just regular tax or else you'll go to jail
Still waiting for the Bunny Communities to lift off.
Not enough people understand buns. It's like being the BSD user in a room full of Linux and Windows users lol.
That is so spot on! I've not met so many people that have had bunnies but I basically grew up with them.
I read that as BSDM and was wondering what bondage and sadomasochism had to do with bunnies...
(But, hey, who am I to judge?!)
/r/snakes was surprisingly active given our fairly niche position in the greater pet community.
bunnies rise up
Bun bun.
As a techie that doesn't like cats (people seem blinded by their cuteness even when every other personality trait is negative, they destroy things, only look out for themselves, don't care about you whatsoever, will refuse to be trained and not learn boundaries, etc) this saddens me.
I much prefer dog content personally. Where can I go for the latest hot dog content on this platform? 🔥
(people seem blinded by their cuteness even when every other personality trait is negative, they destroy things, only look out for themselves, don’t care about you whatsoever, will refuse to be trained and not learn boundaries, etc) t
My cats love me.
Everything else is on point though.
I disagree with most of the other bits too. They seem to be tendencies of cats people don't take the proper care of.
I've owned two cats for over ten years. They've destroyed a couple things. My parents have had 5 cats for about ten years and they've barely had anything destroyed. My neighbor who has had a dog for about a year and a half has had multiple pieces of furniture ripped, and many things around her house ruined/destroyed.
Cats are solitary predators and not pack animals, so they are motivated more by their own needs and desires, but saying "don't care about you whatsoever" just sounds like someone who's never had a real relationship with a cat or doesn't understand the way they exhibit their care.
I've trained like 5 different cats to fetch, multiple cats not to go in certain areas of the house, not to chew certain things, etc. Most people try to train cats like they would train a dog - through showing disapproval towards behavior etc, which, as mentioned above, is just not what motivates a cat.
i dont have a cat. i just annoy the neighbours cats on my jogging routine.
Correction: Your cat tolerates you because you provide food. 😅
Spoken like someone who has never won over a cat. Cats are absolutely capable of affection and have preferred humans, they just don't give it out for cheap.
well have you tried what a dog will do if you dont feed it
While I think your opinion is whack, I respect it. I'm glad there are dog people out there even if I think they are crazy.
You think dog people are crazy?? I assure you, there is nothing crazy about the chewed up baseboards and furniture in my house from when my dog was a puppy. Nothing crazy in the slightest about having a dirty floor 24/7 because she brings mud and dirt in from her walks. I feel prefectly sane when she wakes me up barking in the middle of the night because she hears noises outside. Calm and collected when she chews up fresh sticks all over the bed.
You're the crazy one, my friend!!
It's the barking that gets me mostly. I don't want a pet who greets me (and everything) at the top of their lungs every time
That's one of my favourite things about my pup 😂 It's funny how people disagree on these things.
am i a joke to you :O
All the negative traits you list are my favorite things about cats! I love their independence and fuck you attitude.
Yeah same. I’ve lived most of my life surrounded by cats, and I thought they were enough until I moved in with my partner+dog, and I realised I was wrong. Now I’m 100% a dog person, though I still enjoy a cat’s company, but it’s just not the same.
I think this may apply to some cats, but certainly not all. I used to think like you, but I've met plenty of cats that clearly have imprinted on their owners.
I think dogs have a greater capacity for this bonding, especially on average. But dogs understand humans/our body language better than any other species, including other great apes.
We co-evolved with wolves/dogs for thousands of years before cats started being domesticated. We started domesticating wolves when we were nomadic hunter-gatherers. It wasn't until we had our agricultural revolution and started settling and farming that we started domestication of other species.
It's believed we domesticated farm animals like goats before cats as well. It is believed that our domestication of cats began once we started having food/grain storage, and pests like mice started showing up. Cats started to hang around the food storage eating the pests, which is what is believed to lead to the domestication of cats.
I love animals, including cats, but I'm so allergic to cats that my throat will close up.. I'm so glad that I don't have that allergy for dogs, because I definitely prefer them over cats. There's simply no other animal that can interact with us on the level of dogs. We've coevolved with them for at least 20 - 30k years!
Not all cats are heartless assholes, but cats inherently lack the deep level of communication and bonding that is possible with dogs. I really value that level of connection that cannot be had from any other species. A cat doesn't watch a person's eyes glance away, and then proceed to look where our eyes are pointing. Hardly any other great apes species are even capable of that level of understanding of human body language.
If that is what you're going for, dogs cannot be beaten. But that's not the only factor for people to have an animal. There are definitely times I wish my dogs were more independent/less needy when I'm busy... Cats are a great pet for someone who isn't able to be present enough for a dog. Some people don't want a pet like a dog that wants to be with them all the time. They'd rather have a pet that is content doing it's own thing.
You can compare and contrast dogs and cats all day, but at the end of the day it's all just a matter of personal preference.
Edit: Some sources to back my claims. Dog domestication. Cat domestication. Canine comprehension of body language.
Comments like this demonstrate how people just don’t understand cats.
If you don’t bond with your cat that is a YOU problem. You are doing something very wrong.
Dogs can be just as destructive if not more destructive than cats.
I think ultimately you lack experience and have never had your own cat.
I think it’s great that you love dogs so much, but every single person I’ve ever met who thinks dogs are flat out better than cats are people who always lack experience and don’t actually know any better because they are ignorant and won’t accept anything else.
I don’t think he’s saying they’re better, he’s saying it’s a preference thing and he prefers dogs because you can bond more with them.
Cats are way easier to take care of because they don’t need as much attention, which makes them better for a lot of people
people seem blinded by their cuteness even when every other personality trait is negative
Yeah, that's not just a preference.
That's not my comment, genius....️
I thought you cat people were supposed to be the tech guys! How come so many of you can't even keep track of who you're arguing with here!?
It's because their minds are riddled with toxoplasma gondii, obviously
Did you respond to the right user?..
I have had cats in my household when I was a kid before my allergies presented. I've been around cats a lot (wearing a mask) as many of my family has them.
Maybe you should refrain from pre-judging me and jumping to conclusions. I've cited the claims I've made above. Whether you want to believe it or not, dogs are capable of understanding human body language better than cats, or any other species on our planet. I value that deep level level of connection, which definitively exists.
Cats are like a mirror. If you love cats, they will give you love back. If you respect them, they will respect your boundaries. If you're strict with them and want them to respect you just for being their owner, they will look at you like wtf and won't care about you at all. If you mistreat them once, they'll remember.
I agree with everything you're saying. I responded to a user hating on cats telling them not all cats are like that. But because I shared scientific information about dogs/domestication, people are responding to me like I'm the user who was hating on cats.
I love cats. I am just severely allergic to them and admittedly have a preference for dogs. I also acknowledge science and anthropology. Apparently some people are just biased and only capable of emotional reasoning in the face of information they don't like. I was not saying dogs are an objectively better pet; that is down to subjective individual preference. But dogs having a greater ability to read human body language than cats is supported by overwhelming scientific evidence. I personally value that in particular. It doesn't make them the best pet for everyone tho.
I just find that subject fascinating and wanted to share. Crazy cat people can stop acting like I hate cats now.. Talk about blinded by emotions..
This thread right here is the reason I think that Lemmy users can be just as toxic as Redditors, They are just dealing with folks now that they disagree with.
For sure.. but I think the percentage of extremely toxic users (e.g., racist trolls) on Lemmy pales in comparison to reddit. But this sort of defensive emotional arguing transcends social media and is so pervasive in our societies now...
People have grown conditioned to segregating themselves into echo-chamers thru various social media over the last 2 decades. But I see that in the real world now (in the US) in work settings, families, fucking beer brands...
We have grown to insulate ourselves from opinions and information we don't like. We're conditioned to believe that disagreement in conversation is a bad thing and unhealthy. We have grown to both struggle to differentiate opinion from fact, and to internalize our opinions/beliefs so deeply ingrained into our personality, that we interpret any challenges to our beliefs as a personal attack.
This makes dissenting on the most trivial issues immediately devolve into emotional reasoning, personal attacks, and just toxic behavior... Our society needs to deprogram the dysfunctional thinking instilled in us largely thru social media. Our levels of empathy in our societies have deteriorated in conjunction with the growth of social media into what it is today.
I don't know how we change this when it's so pervasive throughout our world... I guess acknowledging the problem exists is a start...
Completely agree on all points. I think that cities dealt with this quite a bit early on as they grew and they largely have not solved internal conflicts outside of causing people to leave and go to other cities/areas. If we cannot solve it or mitigate it in real life outside of creating dedicated spaces, how can we get after it virtually? Maybe there are some lessons learned from real life that would be easier to implement on the internet.
but cats inherently lack the deep level of communication and bonding that is possible with dogs
inherently
nah
Yeah you definitely know better than the cumulative research of scientists around the world...
Glad you cleared that up!
scientists
yeah those would like to distance themselves from the nonsense YOU just made up rn. Citing non-related articles wont help you defend YOUR point.
All you're telling me is that you need to work on your reading comprehension ability...
I'm not going to perform a literature review for you. If you don't trust my words or links, look into it for yourself. Just try not to engage in confirmation bias with your search queries.
I’m not going to perform a literature review for you.
Well unlucky for you i will. And i conclude that you dont need more than celsius room temperature IQ to figure out that its a rather unscientific idea to make an totalitarian point about cats based on an article for dogs that does not mention cats once. If you wanna discuss your point then im open to do so, but dont try to hide behind other peoples work.
Deceiving approaches like this are the reason people dont trust science anymore.
"i literallly meow just for you"
- cat
only look out for themselves, don’t care about you whatsoever, will refuse to be trained and not learn boundaries It is incredibly difficult (like more difficult than training an attack dog to be a lap dog), but I have seen it. Cat that obeyed and loved.
Where can I go for the latest hot dog content
oh boy you in for a rickroll level misdirection
IDK, I am a pretty big tech nerd and still prefer dogs but that doesn't mean you're wrong: There'll always be outliers.
I love my doggo. She is adorable and loving.
Wife had two cats. Combining the animal families is... still a work in progress. Kitties are growing to like me more though, one actively seeks me for cuddles now!
What we need is more rabbits. Make it so.
More rodents in general, where are the rats and Cavies. I want Capybaras and hamsters.
Fun fact: Rabbits/hares aren't actually rodents. They're one of two kinds of lagamorphs, the other being pikas.
Pikas rock!
But are they a bit rodent, though?
and guinea pigs
ferrets too!
I have a bunch of rats living under my shed. Does that count?
Very interesting observation. Alternative theory: cat vs dog prevalence corresponds with users who live in rentals vs owned homes (homeowners or people living with their parents, etc). Cats are often the only animals allowed in rentals. It's often not until you buy your own home are you "allowed" to have dogs.
But I think this still follows from what you suggest. People living in rentals are often younger (and more attentive to tech and culture generally, so more likely to be early adopters) and/or often live in big cities which obviously have higher percentages of tech workers than rural areas. When you say reddit went mainstream, that could mean more older people joined (more likely to be homeowners) as well as their kids (living at home with the family dog).
In my very scientific survey of me, I rented for a long time and had cats, and loved cat posts. One day I got old and bought a house and a year later got a dog. Now I like dog posts more.
I'll go now, I've given this far too much thought.
Lol fair enough! I've never been at a place that allowed dogs, only 1 cat (with extra deposit). I've seen some places that allow dogs under 30-40lbs, but I'm not interested in those kinds of "dogs".
Why do you put "dogs" in quotes? Do you not think they're actual dogs? Why would you gatekeep a species?
Wait, didn't you hear? You must be part of the lucky 10,000! Scientists discovered last year that dogs under 35ish pounds are actually classified as birds!
Does that mean puppies are actually chicks and that puppies can evolve from bird to dog in a single life? Does this mean that small dogs, like other birds, aren't real?
The implications of this are endless, thanks for the insight!
I know it's hard to believe, but bare with me. Puppies are actually lizards. It's a weight thing. They don't have enough gravitational pull to keep their own internal heat, so they need to absorb it from the sun. You're probably wondering why they're okay indoors, but that's because the light molecules reach them through the air.
Source: I read a LOT of /r/shittyaskscience back in my day and I remember how this works trust me.
Secondary Source: Scientists.
Tertiary Source: When I say scientists I actually mean the Bible.
Quaternary Source: When I say the Bible, I really mean the voices in my head.
We need a grand unified pet theory.
You understand that young people who joined digg, then migrated to Reddit are quite older today, right?
Fair, but with this housing market higher than average number of millennials are still renting.
I posted a theory that dog owners are out and about doing things with their dogs and have less time and fewer hands free to make and post photos but I like yours better.
r/BlueHeelers, r/RedHeelers & r/ACD were my copium for not having enough space for one and I miss it a lot
I really want a heeler but I'm not subjecting those guys to a small apartment when they needs acres.
There may be an American bias here, where owning your home has more chance to mean having a garden compared to EU, which is more adapted for a dog.
Most of us with dogs are lazy to post their pics I think. Also my dogs hate cameras. They know when I'm about to take a picture so all my pictures of them suck.
Most of my pics are of them sleeping like this one
Who wouldn't want this?
Guinea pigs owners, rise up!
But not too high.
hehe
Eww, Twitter.
Unfortunately when I searched the meme in question the options that popped up were Twitter or Reddit, and I decided to go for the lesser evil.
I used to be a techy cat person, and then I got a dog. Now I'm a techy dog person.
I had two dogs and 4 cats. Dogs are meh.
I grew up with cats and have spent the last two weeks back at my parent's house with their current 2 cats.
Cats were fine growing up but now that I have had dogs, I've become the total opposite. I hate these damn cats scratching at my door when I try to sleep. I miss my beagle dearly and can't wait to get back home.
Small dogs are nice. I really like my boston terrier, even though she's really naughty.
Small dogs are nice cat food.
FIFY
Nah, most small dogs would fuck a cat up for sure. Depends how small we're talking, but pound for pound dogs are definitely more powerful. Bigger mouth, more aggression, etc.
My last cat used to chase large dogs. I'm sorry, but your small dog is literally a cat food.
Avoiding confrontation doesn't mean you can't win it. You're being super weird dude.
Those large dogs can literally rip your cat apart, happens all the time.
I had 6 cats until my early 30's when I got married to a dog lady. Small dogs are the shit, large dogs are meh to me.
My cat is a 41 year old millennial working at a tech company in the bay area and he is on Lemmy all the time
If he needs any legal advice, our pawfices are open for busyness: cattorneys_at_paw@lemmy.world
Am I your cat?
He thought it was lemmings.
So you're saying that dogs ruined Reddit. I agree. 🤭
Your comment made these three dogs sad. Think on that please.
Mine didn't even use Reddit but now lives in prison :(
To be fair, they look very mischievous
He'd prob shitpost on /r/AskReddit if he had the chance.
😢
These dogs are sad because they know you're going to ruin another social network.
Your mom ruined Reddit.
Spez lapdogs for sure
Obligatory cat pic
I think you're on to something.
I prefer the Adama Maneuver.
Both are cool as hell
Meanwhile my cat after reading this theory...
Don't make me start posting baby photos
remind me...awww now I'm sad.
There's a bot here for that... I just don't remember how to use it.
I want to say it's remindme mstdn.social but without the space?
RemindMe! Tomorrow Did they remember how to use the bot?
I quite like my dog, I like cats too but I've gotten far more injuries from cats then dogs so for now I'll stick with my little girl
I have an indetermined number of pet spiders which don't know they're pets.
I don't think it's so much a techie thing, considering there are also more Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting cats than dogs, too. I think it's just something cats hypnotize people into doing.
Have you seen the pyramids? Those old Egyptians were techies.
Lmao I remember seeing a conspiracy theory that postulated that the pyramids were actually nuclear reactors.
Maybe it was true? 🤷🏻♂️
Oooo it makes sense doesn't it, the techy ones would be more likely to stay indoors stroking a cat than to go outside to walk a dog.
I dont know, all my non techie friends have cats because they arent home enough or dont have a yard for a dog even thought they wish they could, so they settle for a house cat. I wonder if there is a connection with the economy and percentage of dog/cat owners
Dam this gives us a whole new tool to study society and economy, dogs are defintely more expensive to own than cats right, just in general? Not just in terms of money, but time also.
Houseplants are the new pets. Pets are the new children, and children are the new exotic pets.
the world is rebalancing in the wake of our new AI overlords and lack of sustenance
I would disagree with that. Had both most of my life. Cats live much longer on average and tend to have health problems that go longer term, especially kidney and bladder issues. But I'm just going off my own experience, I have no idea what the numbers would look like overall.
My current ratio is 2 cats:1 dog
That's only true for evil techies with lairs, who spend their time sitting on the command chair in the control room, overseeing their minions' work on their masterplan, slowly stroking their cat and laughing with a maniacal laughter at seemingly random moments.
I'll get you next time Gadget!
I'm a techy, and I regularly take my cats for long walks.
you got us on a triple whammy with "stroking"
Seeing everyone is posting their pet, here's mine
I'm a dog person but I wouldn't rule out having a cat in the future.
Look says it all
I'm more of a role playing games/geeky TV shows kind of nerd than a tech one, but my preferences are, in descending order:
My own two cats
My mom's dog
All other dogs
All other cats
I just got a puppy! I don't see a dog or puppy 101 lemmy maybe there's one now? And back when I was on that other site I never subscribed or posted on awww but did participate in breed and puppy specific communities because I wanted to get and give more information, not just post cute pics.
Also I think there is a bias because of the physicality and interactive nature of dogs is why there is often more pictures of cats than there are dogs. A lot of dog owners are spending most of the time training them or going out and doing things with them and might not have the camera handy. Most dog owners have taken their dogs on two walks and at least two poops a day, puppy owners are getting up at night for potty and are exhausted.
I feel like cat time is entirely spent in liminal time at home when it's easy to just pull out your phone and take a few snaps. Often with a dog you're actually doing something with them and pulling out the phone or taking pictures involves multitasking with the ball, leash or general management while on a walk or hike.
There's dogtraining@lemmy.world !!
Subbed!
Charlie and Ghost will help with the dog pic invasion!
As a certified™ nerd, I can assure you that I much prefer doggos to cats.
Exhibit A, my favourite doggo and personal companion.
Some people like cats more, because they leave you alone for most of the time and aren’t smothering you with love. Others prefer dogs, because they want to be smothered. If you go with your stereotypical tech person, they would be introverted, so more likely to be a cat person. That’s just my theory 🔬
Me reading this comment with my cat smushed against my head
But my cats have all always smothered me with love, and that's something I've always loved about them! Maybe because I find cats very easy to communicate with, whereas with dogs I always feel kinda ackward.
If you think dogs smother you with love, just wait until you meet a particularly needy cat. Mine can't stand being away from me for more than 5 minutes, and will legitimately freak out and start throwing things around until I come back.
nobody knows you're a dog on the internet
Well, if you say so... (Obligatory dog pic)
Cats are the best, 10% of the internet, humanity's collective history, are just cats.
"pet theory" = my angriest Lemmy upvote yet
Where llamas ?
According to my music player, getting their asses whipped on the regular.
Farmersonly is what you are looking for.
considering how lonely everyone got during covid, having someone in your room that is actively trying to kill you can make your day a little more interesting.
I am in the tech field and I prefer dogs.
But there is a surprising lack of "Barbie" content on Lemmy...
Hmmm...
Nice try, Margot.
Would you like to know when my new movie is going to be available in theaters?
Oh that new Ryan Gosling movie?
I'm in it too!
That must be so exciting for you! What’s he like?
Like the feeling you get when you buy tickets to "Barbie" in July 21st.
You just got personalized market'd to.
You win this round, Barbie.
Yay
Thank you for being here, Margot, lol
Hey, I'm just here to promote "Barbie".
Here you go. Our silly little (not)puppy
The old cat to nerd theory index. It’s just science folks.
I never understood the cat VS dog people. I like them both. I've had cats, I've had dogs, I've had both together. I even had a cat that would come walking with me and the dogs.
I don‘t really like/want either, but slightly prefer cats cause they are quieter and I never stepped in cat poop.
Dog poo is easy to spot and avoid. Cat poop is there for your kids to find and play with in the sand pit.
Heh, PET theory. Nice one.
It might also be a socioeconomic type thing too. Dogs are more expensive and usually requires property that is owned and not rented, at least where I live.
I was shocked at how little dog stuff there was on Lemmy. I assumed it would be one of the bigger subs. I used to hang out in a sub with just my breed, now I'm with a community the size of a kindergarten class that is just for canines in general.
I prefer dogs over cats, but own both.
Here's my best friend.
I usually like dogs more than cats, even though I don't have a dog (Family doesn't like pets). We had cats coming into our property who ask for food, and we would give them, but none of them stayed for more than a week. One cat who was injured in her leg asked for food, and she stayed until she felt better. She gave birth to 4 kittens, but she passed away after 2 months due to suspected poisoning. We had to protect the kittens, so we built a small shelter for them while giving milk. One day a stray dog intruded our premises and killed the 3 of 4 kittens. My dad fed & protected the surviving one until he was mature enough. He lives in a small shelter near our home, is friendly and asks for food most of the time. He eats a lot, though. We named him Kitu.
Expert IT systems and devices here. I prefer dogs.
I think you should start thinking about changing your profession, since I doubt you will be able to change the preference.
But I only slightly hate this work :(
That's the dream right there.
I'd consider myself fairly "techy". I can't decide which I like better. They're both rewarding in their way. Dogs definitely require more attention, but they also provide more attention. Cats are lower maintenance so that theory sounds plausible.
I'm happy to see all the pictures of all the animals
That’s a really good point, and most of the dog posts I’ve seen have been in “aww” while cats have “cat” that seems to at times dominate the top posts even while not logged in
It's settled then. Dogs are awwer than cats.
As someone who mostly had dogs growing up but now have two cats, I can support that. Haha
Really? https://imgur.com/a/s3LIlJE
Really?? https://imgur.com/a/TslPMEH
Please link me to the cat content!
Shows 0 posts for me
That sucks :/ Maybe the new ones will eventually show up if you subscribe.
cattorneys_at_paw@lemmy.world It's not active yet, but if your cat has pressing legal questions, our pawfices are open for busyness.
What I'm seeing is that once the ratio flips it's time to abandon all hope and move into another platform then?
Damn.
The trick is to start your own platform and forbid dog content
Check out professor specieist over here. #dogrights
The only dog content allowed are cooking recipes
So, I'm an anomaly, I have no pets at all. I don't want to have a pet. I don't like cats, I don't like dogs. I don't want a goldfish, even. Congratulations, I felt out of place yesterday. Now, I feel like I should delete my account and disappear.
Now I'm curious what would be implied by some hypothetical social website if the animal content was dominated by, say, reptiles.
Hi, it’s me, the nerd with the snakes.
Snek tax
And here is our new baby, a normal BCI we have named Cinnamon Toast:
Imgur flagged your noodle as adult content 😅
That’s amazing, I’m belly laughing. For those scrolling through, the noodles are completely SFW.
Here is an old photo of our BEL ball python named Marshmallow:
Ooh, love the eye, looks like a jem.
I’ll let Marshmallow know that a stranger thinks her eyes are pretty!
That they are Trump supporters? ( frogs are kinda reptiles, right?)
Frogs are amphibians. They're both studied under herpetology, and there's a broad overlap between reptile keepers and amphibian keepers, but biologically speaking there's a lot different between them.
Men are more likely to own a cat or a dog than women now a days, though the women that do have pets are more likely to have multiple pets so total number wise the women that own cats, own more cats.
I'm non-petisan--I love both dogs and cats. I work in IT, but academically trained as an artist. I'm a weirdo!
HA!
It is I! The outlier! The IT professional, DND dungeon master, comic book reading techie nerd with a dog!
I think its more like "tech-heads like interesting posts" vs "average users like cats and or dogs". Don't get me wrong, tech enthusiasts do like pets, but there's no real reason to post them in a general forum or someplace similar.
My cats a real cunt, so is my dog but I love him more.
I'm a techie, and I like cats and dogs. /shrug
I see you've never been to Seattle, where there's more dogs than kids and 1 in 2 works at Amazon or Microsoft
I could see there being a correlation between cat owners and techies. How strong of a correlation though? We'll need a study for that.
And I'll have you know I have ferrets. Which some call cat snakes.
Get out of here with your non-feline pets. /s
Okay, how well do they get along with real cats
Considering cats are this planet's apex predator, probably not very well.
You forget /r/Dogfort.
my unpopular(?) opinion:
dogs are slobbery, stinky, and loud and you have to take them outside a lot and they aren't always compatible with many living situations. plus there is a certain dangerous breed that completely fills up shelters beyond capacity and has a weird cult-like following.
kitties are like perpetual cute babies and are way, way easier to take care of.
you see sites like reddit or lemmy or youtube or whatever fill up with so many cat pictures and videos for a reason.
I am also a cat & dog parent. Dealing with our dogs over the past few months has been significantly more stressful than dealing with our cats. Take the 4th of July, for example. Our cats didn't like the noise from fireworks, but were mostly fine. Our dog was beyond terrified. I couldn't get her to go potty outside because she refused to go out there. I also had to sleep next to her in her crate to comfort her. We have to take her with us if we will be gone for a while or find someone to watch her.
All animals are great but remember to adopt and not shop
How about really lazy dogs? Do those count as cats?
Not any more than they count as rug-pillow combos.
I think nerds tend to not have animals. Introverts and home-bodies have cats.
What a weird thought. I doubt nerds are any more or less likely to have pets than non-nerds.
It’s always been a “pet theory” of mine that this reversal was due to Reddit becoming mainstream, and that it’s initial nerdy/techie user base preferred cats to dogs.
I have a competing theory. Dogs started to become wildly popular during the early to mid 2010s, when millennials were graduating from college and getting their own apartments/homes. It's well known that millennials are having far fewer children. I believe that millennials started getting dogs instead of having kids, and this caused a huge spike in the popularity of dogs. This is also consistent with everyone suddenly starting to refer to their pets as their "children" or "fur babies", because they are literally replacements for human children. Anecdotally, as a millennial, I have seen almost everyone I knew in high school get a dog over the past decade.
As a nerd with a dog, fuck all y'all.
i like both, it just depends on when you ask me. for example right now i want to pet my cat but my dog can’t have that and will push him away until i pat him (the dog) instead.
But I'm allergic to cats 🥲
You have my sympathies. I hope you can still enjoy the pictures from afar.
Pictures, videos, audio. Anything that allows me to enjoy from afar works 🥲🙏
How about more pets in general? Gimme those pet turtle and pet spiders content
This should be the beginning of a huge placed data mining project.
I have both. Under average techie (at least here) and under average social skills.
Fuuuuuu....
My Reddit account is still mostly subscribed to cat subreddits, so I don't see it as often, but yeah, the trend you're noticing is 100% real.
Personally I'm anti cat pets and pro cat memes. So I don't know where that leaves me.
Cats are WINNING
Cats are for asocial schitzoids. Dogs are for people who go outside. DOGS FOREVER
interesting theory
I can’t attest to the accuracy of your hypothesis but I have been thinking a lot about AI lately. I’m eagerly awaiting the day that some genius comes up with an AI post filter that I can tell it to “never show me cats” or “block and downvote all memes”. That will be the day that the internet becomes a peaceful place for me.
…and dogs rule, btw.
Cats have been known in studies to be favoured by smarter people. Dogs are, minus rare exceptions, idiots and those starved of mass attention and no real friends find them slightly more appealing so they settle for a literal mouth drooler.
/s not really
It's all fun and games until the pit bull people show up.
Fuck dog pics. Cat pics are the shit.
I’m a techie who hates cats and love dogs.