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Cat or Dog Person?

After taking this quiz on BuzzFeed I found that I am 85% a dog person and 15% a cat person.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hattiesoykan/are-you-a-cat-or-a-dog-person

Reflection: It turns out I am pretty much an average Joe based on the results of this quiz. Based upon every single news source, more people identified themselves as “dog people,” than “cat people.” According to LiveScience, roughly 60% of participants identified themselves as “dog people,” while only 11% of participants said they were cat people. A fear of cat's is actually a recognized phobia, called Ailurophobia, and this is common enough of an occurrence to which successful treatments exist. The treatments are the same for many other treatments of phobias, which are psychiatric or therapy specialists. The most common reasoning behind a fear of cats is a traumatic incident in the past, according to epainassist.com. Now that I rewind my 15 years, I do remember having a specifically frightening incident with a cat. I was 5, and I was clawed down my neck, before I could even respond that terrorizing mini-tiger bit my arm. 

Beyond the one cause of cat-phobia’s that epainassist.com referred to, which really does not differentiate causes of cat phobias, from causes of dog phobias; I believe that cats have innate traits and characteristics that are frightening to humans and rightfully attract less people to be "cat people.” Physically cats have fangs, threatening eyes, claws and are considerably more unpredictable. Dogs are not as agile; therefore, it gives humans more time to prevent unfortunate events to occur. Hence, the commonly used analogy, “cat like reflexes.” These reflexes are a byproduct of cat’s ability to see roughly double the number of frames per second that humans can. Cats have this natural and highly distinguishable ability to reorient itself as it falls to land on its feet after just 3-4 weeks of life, coined as the “cat righting reflex.” This cat righting reflex is a testament to a cat’s remarkable agility and unpredictable reactions. For the aforementioned reasons above, that is why more people identify as “dog people.”