I grew up with cats and love them. I have recently rescued a dog and now love them! Cats are just way easier and I am not having to come home to take my puppy out.
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In regards to AC:NL... Do you like the cats or the dogs?? The Cats are pretty darn cute!
I don't really like either of them in real life because I have horrible allergies towards animals. (especially cats and dogs) As for ACNL I do like both, but I think most of the cats look cool.
I like both cats and dogs in person, but in regards to NL, I love the cats. Mitzi is my favorite villager (tied with Carmen, anyways), and Olivia is probably my second favorite.
Ive been a cat person my entire life. I have never lived without at least one cat in my house. I have had a dog before and she was perfect, an elderly husky who was super cute and lazy but i just dont like any kind of dogs. My own dog was good for me and no other dog will ever compare to her. So i prefer cats, since pretty much any cat will do for me aha
I love cats. We used to have six because we took in two that one of our neighbors let outside and claimed they weren't theirs; they were clinging to our screen door during one winter, just skin and bones :/. We ended up having to find them better homes since they didn't get along with my other four cats (one whom is with my sister now since she's now married and living somewhere else).
If you want to know how much I love cats, I made a confession on tumblr on the "Dragon Age Confessions" blog saying: "If there are any cats in Dragon Age: Inquisition, I hope you won’t be able to kill them. I know that things in the game aren’t “real,” but it always [made me mad] me off or depressed me in the past knowing or seeing players killing non-combatant cats (such as Mr. Bigglesworth in WoW or the cats in the blood elf starting area). I apologize if this sounds stupid to anyone. I just needed to get this out of my system." It sometimes was hard for me to have to kill wild cats (that attacked me first or for a quest).
In-person, I would have to say neither. However, in NL I would say I like the cats over the dogs. At least to me, the cats seems more interesting than the dogs.