My son told me yesterday that he is "not a dog person." He said they are generally aggressive, competitive, "full of themselves," rude, and stink. He then went on to add "they are all the things I despised in adolescent youth" (when he was in junior high).

My son is a Zen-like male. Always has been. Old soul. Peaceful. And thus endured a fair amount of bullying in school. That has resolved now that he's in college.

Anyway, he agreed with me that not all dogs are like that. But he is a cat person.