From NYTimes: Cats are Internet's "It" animal [View All]

[Tallison]

Searched the lounge for this topic and didn't find anything, so I presume I'm not double-posting about it (I apologize if I am). F

From today's NYTimes online edition, the following headline article:

"Internet's Best Friend (Let Me Count the Ways)"
By SARAH BOXER
Published: July 30, 2005

On the Web you'll find the Infinite Cat Project but no Infinite Dog. My Cat Hates You is big on the Web, but there is no site named My Dog Hates You. (Dogs Hate Bush exists, but then so does Cats Hate Bush.) As any good Web hound can tell you, Rathergood.com is filled with crazy crooning cats. But where, oh where, are the singing dogs? (New Guinea singing dogs, a real breed, do not count.)

Cats are the Web's it-animals. They're everywhere. When you look up Devil Cats, you'll see comics about cat owners who love too much and the cats that cheat on them. Look up Devil Dogs, and you'll be offered apparel for the Marine Corps and information about Drake's cakes. Under the heading "Animal Antics," ifilm.com has four "Viral Videos" of cats, none of dogs. There are tons of badly drawn cats at www.tiddles.co.uk, but there's no such site for dogs.

Why cats and not dogs?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/30/arts/30cats.html?hp