From: willreich_77@yahoo.com   
      
   On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 4:15:02 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
   > >On Mon, 11 May 2015 12:06:04 -0700 (PDT), Will in New Haven   
   > > wrote   
   > >in   
   > >in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   > >   
   > >[...]   
   > >   
   > >> The idea that there are dog people and cat people is   
   > >> debatable.    
   > >   
   > >It's obviously not an exhaustive classification, but there   
   > >are enough people who unhesitatingly identify themselves as   
   > >one or the other that the existence of the two types is   
   > >pretty clear.   
   >    
   > And it is certainly the case that cats and dogs can live happily   
   > together, if they've been brought up together, and that there are   
   > humans who are happy with that combination.  Others, not so much.   
   > I would hate to have to take a dog outside to eliminate at   
   > regular intervals, and as far as I know dogs can't be taught to   
   > use litterboxes.   
   >    
      
   Oh, they can but it isn't easy or common. My mother's little white Poodle   
   named Sugar was litter-trained. Mom said that it wasn't even that difficult.   
   Our Lab da Bear, used the litterbox several times as a puppy, before I lived   
   with him. He seems to have    
   been imitating the five Himmys that lived there and he started getting regular   
   walks before it became a habit. I don't know if his litter-using would have   
   amounted to anything had he not been walked.    
      
   I've trained dogs professionally but I never tried to litter-train one.    
      
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   Will in New Haven   
      
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