i love dogs and cats.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A pet or companion animal is an animal kept primarily for a person's company, protection, or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or laboratory animal. Popular pets are often noted for their attractive appearances and their loyal or playful personalities. Pets provide their owners (or guardians) both physical and emotional benefits. Walking a dog can supply both the human and pet with exercise, fresh air, and social interaction. Pets can give companionship to elderly adults who do not have adequate social interaction with other people, as well as to other people who are living alone. There is a medically approved class of therapy animals, mostly dogs or cats, that are brought to visit confined humans, such as children in hospitals or elders in nursing homes. Pet therapy utilizes trained animals and handlers to achieve specific physical, social, cognitive, and emotional goals with patients. Some of the most popular pets are likely dogs and cats; other animals commonly kept may include (but are not limited to) pigs, ferrets, and rabbits; rodents such as gerbils, hamsters, chinchillas, rats, and guinea pigs; avian pets, such as parrots, passerines, and fowl; reptile pets, such as turtles, lizards and snakes; aquatic pets, such as fish, freshwater and saltwater snails, and frogs; arthropod pets, such as tarantulas and hermit crabs.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Confession time! I'm a HUGE cat person. Dogs get the credit for this, but cats are just as loyal and playful as dogs."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am a dog person so you have to convince me about cats ;)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well to start, how often do any dogs you know hunt mice or other \"vermin\" around your house?  I know the corgi I used to have wouldn't.  All she was good for was sass."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I do admit I like that domestic cats still have their wild instinct in them and dogs are become less of a \"wolf\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I just appreciate cat behaviors in general, from their body language, to their playing styles, and their urine marking.  Actually, forget what I said about their urine marking.  That's no fun at all."}, {"role": "user", "content": ":) but why are cats less domesticated than dogs?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Maybe because domestication has to do with mutual relationships. It always seems to me that we need cats more than they need us.  Can't say I feel the same way about dogs."}, {"role": "user", "content": "i guess dogs are more dependent on a pack and cats are more individualistic"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Cat's are known to have their own packs, although they're called colonies.  There's even a book series about them that my friend Megan loves called Warriors by Erin Hunter."}, {"role": "user", "content": "how about them six toe cat colonies in Cuba, the Earnest Hemingway cats"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You mean polydactyl cats? They make me think of a cat-dinosaur hybrid!  Poor cats with extra toes!"}]