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Cat Person

I have always been a dog person, but am becoming a cat person.

I like cats; they are great. However, there is liking an animal and being a "type-of-animal person." A person who likes dogs will happily pet one when the opportunity arises. A dog person goes out into the freezing cold with poop bag in hand, deals with the stabbing pain of using bare fingers to pull a nasty burr from a paw, stumbles exhaustedly in the burning sun with poop bag in hand, and sleeps in funny positions because the dog is hogging the leg space on the bed.

All that said, our current cats are training me to also be a cat person. I adored my last cat, but he lived with dogs and learned to adapt to my dog person ways. I would not say he acted like a dog, but I did not really adapt much to his cat ways, not in the way I am doing with the current cats.

I am not sure what the personal sacrifices are that define a cat person, but I am learning. Already, my sleeping is adjusted to accommodate a cat as well as a dog. I interrupt whatever I am doing to pet one cat when she demands attention by sitting in a cardboard box I call "the attention box," because she specifically goes to that box to demand attention. Just as my dogs and I sometimes inadvertently trained each other in a cycle, so too is that happening with me and the cats.

I am still a dog person, trying to ensure a good life for my Spuddy Buddy, but I am also getting closer to our two cats and learning to deal with them on their terms.