Yes, I like cats better than people. Guaran~fuckin~teed.
I'm curious how you think dogs should fit into the discussion where you said something very sick and demented about cats? They have nothing to do with your statement. There is only something mutually-exclusive about the two pets in the minds of those who are not true animal lovers.
I don't want to hijack this thread so I'll stop ... but, how would you feel if I or any other member wrote a post containing only the following?:
There's an annoying dog in the neighbor's yard that hasn't stopped barking for the last two hours. Makes me want to kill every dog I see.
I would laugh. That's the response the comment intended to elicit. But your example isn't even valid. I did far more than write a post containing only verbiage about a cat. I made a comment about social media and then praised other nations for using it responsibly, contrasting that with the United States. Hell of a big difference from your example.
Dogs only fit into the discussion as my response to your love of cats. In addition to your taking umbrage at my comment about "wanting to kill every cat I see," you saw fit to include your preference about cats over humans and the stat about cat ownership. Which, in retrospect, was not at all necessary if your only point was that I was ill-advised to make that comment about cats. I mean, seriously, what does it matter how much you like cats or how many people own them if your only point is that I shouldn't have said it?
And so my response to what I conceived to be an over-the-top politically correct stance, was to reply in jest with a plea for dog lovers to come to my defense. Surely you must have understood that. And you don't have to like both cats and dogs to be a true animal lover. I like dogs, fish, birds, and squirrels, to name some animals.
I don't care for cats. Two reasons. First, I don't like their propensity to climb all over counters, furniture and the like. I understand that's their nature, but I find it off-putting. Second, and more important to me as an animal lover, is that I cannot tolerate their instinct to kill birds in my yard. Whether it's someone's pet gone astray or a feral cat, I've had to witness too many cats chasing and killing the birds that I lovingly feed in my well-maintained outdoor bird-feeder environment. And while I also understand that this is their nature, I don't have to tolerate it, especially when they are only killing the birds for sport and leaving them laying dead in the yard and walking away or, worse yet, bringing them back home to their masters and laying them at their doorstep like some prize. Screw the damn cats for doing that. On the other hand, I fully understand and appreciate the majesty of the few hawks that I have come upon munching away on my feathered friends, as this is a natural part of the food chain. Big birds (except for Mr. Henson's) eat little birds as part of their regular diets. Cats do not. But I don't hate cats to the point that I want to kill them. It was just my way of making a point about all those people on social media who are so consumed with viral videos that they cannot resist showing me another pretty pussy cat clip.
But the one part I find offensive about your stance is that you show much more concern about my comment on here about cats than anyone on here showed about a comment elsewhere about Jews. True, Slinky countered that response by stating his right to make a flippant remark since he lost loved ones in the Holocaust. But if I were to use you as a barometer of emotions, I would have to conclude that more people love cats than love Jews. And that would just be sad.
In summation, I will apologize to you that you found my humor offensive. I just find it hard to believe in this day and age and especially in the political climate we are undergoing right now as I speak with the presidential primaries and all that you are offended by a remark about cats. Especially on what is really just a discussion board about pussy. That's the real irony here.