Category: Dating and Relationships
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/funny-coffee-quotes.html
Ah, the discussions that happen during early morning coffee!
I was talking to a friend and came up with the wisdom that men and women behave much like cats and dogs. This wisdom came about because of a comment I made she should pet me to let me know how good my coffee was. If she petted me enough she could get me to poor another cup! She laughed and didn’t agree totally, so we’re asking the Zone to settle this debate.
If you pet a cat it purrs, stretches, moves its feet, and will lie on your lap contently until it suddenly decides to leave. You never know why it left, and if you call it to come back it ignores you. If you follow it to coach it back to your lap it will hiss, scratch you, and jump to the top of some high place where it is hard to reach, and doesn’t come down until it decides it wants to.
If you feed a cat, any cat, you give it a home. No matter where it strays, you feed it, so it will come back, and depending on its mood pay attention to you or not. You can’t scold it for running off, because it won’t listen, and acts as if it doesn’t understand what you are saying.
Cats are always grooming themselves, and preening, they can do this for hours it seems.
If you praise a dog by petting it you teach it to do anything you want and it is eager to do it. Its tongue hangs out, it drools all over the place, wags its tail. A dog will come running when you call it.
Even when you aren’t paying attention to it, it will nudge you with its nose, or paw, or even whine to get a pet.
Feeding it makes it happy, but if it strays it may or may not come home, and when it does it acts like nothing happened different, flops on the floor and rest. If you scold it for running off it whines, hangs its head and is sorry, pet it and immediately it is happy again, and ready to do your bidding.
What does the Zone say? Am I right?
I have found this to be the case in most humans, but not by gender.
It strikes me funny that we refuse to see ourselves as animals. We're not "like" cats or dogs, we are simply mammals as they are. We love attention, treats, playtime and a comfy bed just as much as any of our pets, and we as a species can be very easily trained to do tricks - we work to get paid, do we not? The same can be done with food, and I have trained many human minions this way.
That said, even as a female I'd say I'm more doggish, whereas my current companion is about as easily unsettled as a white-tailed deer.
Ah, but we are domestic, not like Deer at all.
Deer can run free, are not answerable, or whatever to anyone, but we are in some ways in a relationship?
I wouldn't say we're restricted to cat and dog like behavior. Some of us are like horses; loyal and kind, yet free and wild. Some of us are like dolphins; friendly, and inteligent way beyond most expectations. Not to be outdone, some of us are true predators, like wildcats, cougars, ETC.; just living and breathing for the next hunt; feeling the rush that comes with preying on smaller, more vulnerable animals than ourselves.
Jess's analogy was perfect.
if someone wanted to classify me as an actual animal, I'd say I'm a horse (loyal, while at the same time, free and wild, in the right situations).
I'll add that the reason you, Wane, and likely others, perceive that both genders are so different, is cause most females aren't straightforward, and there are often hidden meanings behind what they say.
then, in regards to the way most of them treat men, they enable them. instead of trusting a man to do for himself/remember his wallet, or whatever, they frequently remind him to not forget it.
so, if both genders took a long, hard look at the things I've mentioned, and possibly took them to heart, I doubt we'd have this sort of problem as often. just sayin'.
Ooh, that hunting, killing one, that's me. I'm all hunty hunty, killy killy. I would say I'm a cougar, cuz I like cougars, but a cougar has another definition which I can't really be. Can I be a mountain lion?
i would say i'm like a cat. that's independent. and free. and enjoys to get milk.
Hmm I'm rather reptilian in many ways. Perhaps I have "an inner dragon."
But if we are to stereotype, women cannot properly be considered cats, because cats do not constantly compare their parenting styles, clothing styles, and everything else against other cats around them, and then hecle their mate to death on account of not measuring up. Cats are quite content in that respect, not to do all this comparison.
As to those who consider themselves like horses, perhaps, or maybe more like zebra, who are better at managing would-be predators.
I was born in 82. That makes me a dog, according to Chinese astrology. Haha.
Woof!
can we be fantasy animals? I am that serpent. haha!