“Before kittens ruled the Internet, puppies reigned in print.”
Slate provides an in-depth investigation into the classic dog vs. cat battle through competing media. On one hand, the puppy print preference seems to come from getting into the heads of dogs, that they are more approachable as creatures and storytellers. On the other hand, author Daniel Engber supposes “that since ancient times, the cat has been more an image than a text.”
Ultimately, Engber recommends that we must learn to love both cats and dogs, as flexibility of medium is apparently essential to authorial success.
