I really love both of them.
I love cats' independence and somewhat erratic behavior, whilst enjoying the mind-boggling loyalty of my canine friends.
One of my cats (a blue-point Siamese), Mathilda, is probably the most intelligent animal I've ever encountered. She's picked up that she can point at things with her paw to say that she wants them, and has even tried to emulate human speech at points, and human mannerisms. E.g.: I once was sitting one a chair, and her favorite thing ever is helium balloons. Somehow the string had become tangled, and she couldn't reach it to mess with it.
She walked up to me, looked me dead in the eyes, and meowed something which sounded approximately, like, "Get the balloon down!" I was baffled, and then asked of my sister, "Did Mathilda just ask me to get the balloon down?!" and then the cat NODDED, put her paw on my leg and repeated, "Get the balloon down!" and then pointed at it with her paw.
Consequently, I'm somewhat scared of that cat.
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