You know, there’s a saying in engineering: “There’s always more than one way to skin a cat.” I heard it just the other day when I analyzed something one way and someone suggested doing it another way. That got me to thinking why isn’t the saying “There’s always more than one way to skin a dog?”
I’ll tell you why, because dogs are great and cats are the devils spawn.
The only cool cats I’ve ever seen or heard of have personalities like dogs. Which begs the question, why even bother gambling on the fact that the cat might be like a dog when you could just get a dog?
Maybe my dislike for dogs comes from my dad throwing ice cubes at the neighborhood cats wondering through our yard when I was growing up. I later asked him why he used ice cubes and he said “It’s a solid object that won’t leave any evidence and won’t ruin the mower later.” Smart man my dad.
So back to cats and why they are so terrible. First off, these generalizations are for “cat” personalities, not the cool “dog-cats.”
Cats don’t do what you want them to. Why do the blind only use dogs, because cats would leed the blind up trees and to cat nip factories. They are such arrogant animals, I just want to my shoes at everyone of them! I unfortunately learned I can’t do that since I only have 2 shoes on me and there’s usually 12 cats wondering around.
Cats only come around humans when they want something. Dogs will wait for you to come home and wag their tales when they see you. There love is unconditional and this is made obvious to by the fact they still love you even after rub their noses in their own feces. Dogs can go on walks with people outside, they go on boats, hikes and even like to swim around with people. When was the last time you saw someone going on a walk/hike with their cat?
Cats are just stupid. Dogs can be trained and will learn how to do many useful things at they should do. Cats do whatever they want and think they’re better than humans. If they had opposable thumbs, I can see these creatures being mankinds’ arch enemies. Let’s just say that the Terminator movies would be the fight against cats.
No crazy old people own 100 dogs. They always seem to have 100 cats. Why, because crazy people like cats. Enough said.
Last point is that people give cats away and I’ve seen people pay someone else to take their cat. Dogs are hard to find for free. Why? Because of supply and demand. No one wants a cat and there’s way too many of them, therefore the price is zero. There are many people who want dogs and apparently there are not enough, price is usually around $100.
On all points, dogs win. Cats are stupid.
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(had to delete the first post because I had some grammatical errors;)
Cats really do seem to have a bad reputation in many idioms:
Here's one that you experienced in mid-November....
It's raining cats and dogs!
The dog, an attendant of the storm king Odin, was a symbol of wind. Cats came to symbolize down-pouring rain, and dogs to symbolize strong gusts of wind. A very heavy storm, therefore, indicated that both cats and dogs were involved. Another explanation is that the phrase came about in early 17th-century London, when cats hunted mice on the rooftops - during a rainstorm, the cats were washed off the roofs and fell on passersby.
A bag of cats - A bad-tempered person, such as: "She's a real bag of cats this afternoon!"
Busier than a one-eyed cat watching two mouse holes - Very busy, almost to the point of being frantic
but your idiom about "more than one way to skin a cat" is actually talking about catfish...
The reference is to preparing a catfish (named as such because of its long whiskers) for cooking, which must be skinned because the skin is tough.
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