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Drivingidea.ru LogoArrow This question usually arises for many at some point people who decided to brighten up their everyday life by getting a pet.

It would seem that the answer is simple: someone who has been drawn to dogs since childhood should get a puppy, but someone who has admired the charisma of Matroskin the cat since his youth and often played with his fellow cats living in the yard should get a kitten. Probably, this is the criterion that should underlie the choice, since ultimately everything is decided by personal sympathies, not rational considerations.

The way the human psyche works is that a good relationship with a pet can only be built on the basis of good feelings towards it, a general disposition towards its biological species, a willingness to take care of it, and spend money on food, combs, collars, and leashes. Neither considerations of prestige, nor the desire to show off a luxurious pet to friends, nor personal ambitions that force you to choose the most fashionable and expensive will help you overcome your dislike even for a rare purebred animal.

With all this, it makes sense to take into account some universal rules that suggest which species will be easier to get along with and find mutual understanding with. A dog is more needed by a sociable person, accustomed to being the center of attention and who cannot imagine his day without meeting with five or six friends living in the neighborhood. We can say that for such an owner, a dog will be more of a friend and conversationalist, sharing all emotions with him, constantly being nearby and requiring continuous communication with him.

Regular walks in the yard will be a long-awaited outing for both the owner and the dog. Both the person and his pet will be happy to share their achievements in training and improving the exterior with their neighbors. Any new outfit, anti-ice and anti-slush paw pads, funny accessories like sunglasses and aprons, collars with a bell, LEDs and a GPS beacon will be equally useful for both the dog and its owner, who, perhaps, will be much more pleased with the purchase of any new such accessory than the faithful dog.

The relationship with the pet will be somewhat different for someone who gets a cat. Such a choice would probably be made by an independent person, accustomed to making decisions based on personal preferences, and not the expected reaction of others. A domestic cat can quite calmly spend its night vigils in the yard and return home in the morning where it is possible from an engineering point of view. If the entrance to the building is blocked by an iron door with an intercom, and you need to go up to the apartment by elevator, then you can simply pick up your cat from the street in the morning, going out to the entrance and calling him by his name.

This is the kind of walking regime that will suit this virtually nocturnal animal best, preferring to sleep in a secluded place almost all day, and a warm apartment where no one can get into evil dogs with sharp teeth, nor evil people with heavy stones, will be perfect for this. Naturally, late in the evening, a cat accustomed to sleeping outside should be helped to go out there, going down with him and opening the doors for him. If this poorly domesticated animal is completely deprived of its main joy - a free life, climbing trees, exploring basements and sewers, communicating with its own kind and singing loudly in the spring - then the cat will turn into an unhappy infantile creature, panicky afraid to go out even to the stairwell. At the same time, he will still sleep during the day, and run and meow at night, only not in the yard, but right in the apartment.

Such a biorhythm will not suit a person who wants to see his pet always nearby. He will also not like the fact that the cat, tired all day during the night "hunt", will sleep soundly somewhere in the corner and sluggishly react to attempts to play with him, pet him, bathe or comb him. In the habits of a cat, you need to be able to respect the enormous individuality, brought up by a predatory way of life in nature, a solitary way of hunting, the need to always be on the alert and quickly hide in case of approaching danger. That is why a person who wants to get a cat should be prepared for the fact that this animal will be active mainly when everyone is already asleep.

Naturally, such a mode of communication requires the ability to make certain sacrifices, which is characteristic not so much of the soul of the company, but of the same individualist and loner as the cat himself. He will certainly appreciate the owner's willingness to adapt to his natural rhythms and, quite possibly, will even begin to consider him his friend and older comrade. At the same time, the mustachioed pet is unlikely to agree with the role of a faithful servant and adorer, which a dog usually becomes. Moreover, judging by the reviews of various people, the cat will ultimately turn out to be the main one in the family, and it will turn out that these people will become his wards, and not vice versa, as was originally planned.

All these observations directly indicate that a cat is more suitable for people who are democratically minded and respect other people's wishes, often at odds with their own. Such a person will calmly react, for example, to the cat's refusal to play or stay at home for an hour or two before a night walk. Usually, such compliance is characteristic of representatives of professions associated with constant sitting at the computer, reading literature, studying documents, drawing, making plans and projects - in a word, representatives of mental labor, accustomed by the nature of their occupation to concentrating on the task at hand, working in silence and often in solitude.

Such an owner perfectly understands the desire of a cat tired at night to sleep for ten to twelve hours and eat when he wants to he, and not when they deign to offer him food. It is precisely such people who quickly find in their relationships with cats a certain common "frequency", the same "wave" and other characteristics, perhaps still unknown to science, allowing different creatures to get closer and get along under one roof. And it is precisely for such an attitude that the cat will be infinitely grateful to its owner, and he may not leave such a person, as sometimes happens if the thread of respect for this very sensitive and demanding animal with a psyche that is little inferior to a human one, breaks. Drivingidea.ru LogoArrow