Oliver has been the subject to abuse via tampon, poor guy.
On the whole, dogs are certainly better than cats. They're so fucking happy and just love you so fucking much, unconditionally, while many cats are just assholes. My favourite kitty (possibly pet) of all time was Fat Shit Cat, and it was mainly because he was so un-catlike. He liked belly rubs, and liked to throw his arms around your shoulders/neck when you carried him, like a baby. Like Oliver, he also liked to pick shit up, but I don't think he had an extra digit. When we got him as a kitten we put him in the pig barn and rarely fed him, so he just killed and ate mice for like, a full year straight, until there was none left. Then we made him go outside to try to re-acclimate to society. He was almost immediately "playfully" jumped by one our doggies. Like, I don't think the dog was intending to hurt him, but he was absolutely reefing on his ears and neck. He didn't seem to give a shit though, and just kind of went with it. They started hanging out a lot after. I don't think he knew he was a cat anymore. On the farm, we never had indoor animals, because fuck that noise. But we let Fat Shit in whenever he wanted because we all loved him so much. But anyway, he eventually got a tumour in his esophagus and died. That was a sad couple days.
Anyway, nowadays we have these little shits running around:
Ser Pounce
Annyong
Lady Whiskers/Pumpkin Balls. I initially named him Lady Whiskers, but he turned out to be a guy, so I kept calling her Lady Whiskers anyway. Apparently someone recently suggested calling her Pumpkin, but this got bastardized into Pumpkin Balls because of course it did. And yeah, there's Marley in the reflection, it was an accidentally brilliant picture.
Speaking of Marley, I love that bitch:
I think I've posted this one before, because I remember Mike or Fong or Jeff or someone commenting on the dented car.
There's her pretending to be a sweetheart. In reality she's a bit of a sociopath. It's wonderful.
Her and Lady Whiskers are BFFs now. I don't know how, because at one point in her life Marley legit wanted to kill ALL the kittens. Here they are hanging out on the deck:
So yeah, my vote goes to puppies and Fat Shit Cat.