Which are best?
Cats:
1.- They're nice to you before you feed them.
2.- You just leave them alone and they take care of themselves.
3.- They're clean, look cute, do cute things.
Dogs:
1.- They're nice to you all the time.
2.- Require a fair amount of interaction, specially if you live in a city.
3.- They smell... they all have that dog smell.
If I lived outside a city, a dog would be the go. In a city cats rule.
Kaiser does it because he/she loves you! (Not so needy)
Nana does it cause he/she wants to make sure you love her. (needy) 
Had a dog, hated it. They take up too much time having to look after them.
Have a cat now.
If we have mice.. don't feed cat for a few days. Mice gone
If there's birds eating my garden... don't feed cat for a few days. Birds gone.
Dogs are the go no matter where you live. They help keep the cat population down.
Had a litter of kittens in my backyard year ago.
The cat haven set traps and caught the lot,bar one.
It returned week or two later starving to death.
Would vomit up the food when i fed it initially.
Named it bones.
Soon it got healthy from all the delicious food.
So friendly,would sit on the cushioned chair outside basking in the sunshine.
Till i got home one day,it was laying dead on grass verge. Found out from other neighbour recently,it was another neighbours dog.
Buried it in backyard.
R.I.P
in my experience: dog owners, need companions that are at your bec and call and do not challenge you, fear of being abandoned. Cat owners: Independent, bipolar and resourceful. So if you are a guy and like an easy life go for a dog lover!
Both are fluffy and make good companions but cats rule because they don't smell, can survive without you, kick any ass, are pretty quiet and if you are good with them they like you back but make you work for it so stay keen and cuddling, without being needy.
My 2 pennies worth...
I think dogs are ok on an acre, but not really on a city block unless they're small yappy things and then they're a menace to the neighbors with all the mindless yapping. My neighbor put down awesome turf all around his house when he built it a year ago. Now you can't run around on his beautiful turf because there's lumps of poo scattered all around the place. Lumps of poo. This is normal to a dog owner. For anyone else, lumps of poo all around your house is a pretty disgusting concept. At least cats have the decency to bury it. 
Responsible dog owners keep their dogs silent too. I'm so glad our neighbors are like that. But I've lived in places where you can pick out 6 or 8 different dogs at night, just mindlessly repeating the same bark over and over and over for 3 or 4 hours at a time.
Hargs I think you're generalising or your friends are crap. I have had a dog in the past, at the moment I have 2 cats. They are in every night, have never scratched a car, poo'd in the neighbors yard, or killed anything larger than a gecko. They are welcome/encouraged to the geckos as they are an invading asian species. Aussie ones are silent by the way, if they make noise they're invaders.
Gizmo most people with small kids have a clamshell sandpit, 12 bucks at bunnings, you put sand in one side an a bit of water in the other on a hot day. Then you pour the water out (no mozzies) and turn it over and put the lid on the sand side. Keeps everything including cats out.
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Gizmo most people with small kids have a clamshell sandpit, 12 bucks at bunnings, you put sand in one side an a bit of water in the other on a hot day. Then you pour the water out (no mozzies) and turn it over and put the lid on the sand side. Keeps everything including cats out.
You are missing the point - the cat shouldn't be in the neighbours yard to begin with! I'm with Gizmo next cat i find in my yard would want to hope it can swim.
Yes cat's probably don't give a damn about borders and rules - but a responsible pet owner should. And by the way no mice, snakes or other vermin in my yard - as a responsible dog owner and father I make sure my yard is clean - so I get pretty pissed off when someones cat starts **ing on stuff & chasing the wildlife ie: birds. I think that you are missing the point mate. Oh and by the way I think you meant there are mice not "they are mice."
disagree with all the comments above... A cat as no boundaries, you cannot teach that to a cat, sorry but the way it is and please believe me that if a cat hangs about your garden it's that there is something there no matter how much attention you pay to it, cats are easily bored, would not stay there if nothing picked its curiosity... As for feral cats... well it's the fault of owners who abandon their animals... same with dogs whom then mix with dingos...
In the end dog people do not understand cats and vice versa, all I know is that no matter how well trained your dog is... if one starts to bark they all bark and that annoys the **** out of me.
I've had both. My cat used to love the shower, played fetch usually bring bottle tops at 2 am looking for a game, would trash the house if you didn't pat him when you got home and sat beside you on the couch like a human. He died in a pool of flouro green vomit after bouncing around the back of my car screaming in pain. Aneurism.
Now I have a Lab, she is the best pet you could ever have.
Cats can be cool but as a pet there is no comparison between dogs and cats. Dogs are mans best friend, cats stay around for the food.
Dog tastes different then cat. Dog cooks faster but cat is more tender...just saying.
We have a sacraficial snake cat I bought it with the notion it will get bitten by a brown snake or alert us to one before the kids.
A couple of years ago late at night we had a knock at the door a young girl had ran over a big tom cat at the front of our house and was devastated. I told her I would look after it and she left, my wife and I went out and it quickly became apparent the cat needed to put out of its misery its eyeballs were hanging out etc
Just as I delivered the final blow in the middle of the road a car came screaming around the corner stopped dead with its lights on me did a u_turn and took off must of looked like a scene from deliverance to the driver
^^lol.
www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-14/desperate-farmers-turn-to-donkeys-for-protection/4463236
Todays's story "Wild dogs are considered so devastating across New South Wales that scientific officials have declared them a key threatening process."
Dogs are also the No1 killer of Koalas... for fun. 
Doggie, this is for you!!
Beware of the Dog
30 second "dog scene / dog skit"... Beware of the Dog... Begins just after the 9:50 mark in the movie. The two guys are brothers in the movie.
