Dogs FTW in my opinion. We had a couple cats growing up and they were prissy things and felt like they always had to be taken care of, again in my opinion. But if you find a cat like an associate of mine from Columbus had I guess there cool. It would play fetch and such, the only downside about his cat was you have your arm on the armrest of the couch playing x-box and all of a sudden that cat would come from over the edge and attack your arm. That damn cat. Hahaha.