It depends on your needs and wants in a companion. Some people prefer cats, I myself prefer dogs. I would still like a cat but allergies make that a bit more difficult then I would like.

I've never gotten along well with cats. I'm for the dogs all the way, maybe because I've never had a cat retrieve a pheasant for me.

When I split with my wife I ended up with our tiny little Maltese. He weighed about four and a half pounds. If you've ever been around a Maltese you would know how sweet they are. Seriously, they're like babies. Oddly enough he wasn't much of a bird dog. He got his ass kicked by a little pint sized half grown bunny in my yard one day. I wouldn't even call it a real rabbit, it was just a small bunny and he TUMPED Olie hard in the nose. That was the end of Olie's rabbit chasing days. I was always worried an eagle would pick him up and take him flying. I can't believe how crazy I was about him. Tell you one thing, whenever I had him anywhere women would come out of the woodwork in order to get to him. He was so cute and tiny I'm sure they assumed I was safely gay. Broke my heart when he died a couple of years ago.

He was over 15 years old.