A: I prefer dogs to cats. I think dogs are friendlier.
B: Dogs are not friendly! When I was little, I was chased by a pack of dogs: the way they bared their fangs at me was terrifying! Even now, I still haven’t got over the psychological trauma.
A: Cats can be scary, too! I have a friend who has a dog and a cat, and the dog is petrified of the cat.
Photo: Paul Cooper, Taipei Times 照片:台北時報記者古德謙
B: That’s not the same. You only hear about people being mauled to death by dogs, you never hear stories about cats mauling humans to death.
A: That’s probably because some people are cruel to dogs, and make them think that all people are nasty, so when they see humans they bite them out of self-defense.
A: 跟貓比起來,我比較喜歡狗,因為狗比較友善。
B: 狗才不友善咧!我小時候還被一群狗追過,牠們齜牙咧嘴的樣子好可怕!我到現在都還沒有擺脫這個陰影。
A: 貓也很兇啊!我朋友家裡養狗也養貓,那隻狗怕貓怕得要死!
B: 那不一樣吧,我們只聽過人被狗咬死,好像都沒聽過貓把人咬死的新聞。
A: 那一定是因為有人對狗殘忍,讓狗以為人都很壞,所以狗看到人才會出於自衛去咬人。
(Translated by Paul Cooper, Taipei Times/台北時報林俐凱)
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