A well-adjusted the Dog Thinker has no enemies except their Cat Type Thinking* immediate family.

I must point out, very clearly, and I should do more of it, I’m sure, that a well-adjusted the Dog Thinker has no enemies except their Cat Type Thinking* immediate family and loved ones. Mostly, they get on with everyone with no difficulty at all. They are active in their communities, helpful, sunny, and lovely, and everybody loves them. Typically, even Cat Type Thinking* people love them as long as they’re not too close.

The problem is when it comes to their Cat Type Thinking* immediate family members, particularly their children. It is a nearly impossible relationship to navigate because the way the Dog Thinker shows love to their closest ones is what a Cat Thinkers calls “abuse” quite seriously – even a Gen X the Cat Thinkers and their elders. Therefore, when the Dog Thinker loses their relationship with a close relative, typically their child, think nothing of it. They’re simply chalk and cheese, oil and water. They don’t mix, but it’s a bitter pill for the Dog Thinker to swallow and a sore spot to talk about.

the Dog Thinker are pillars of a community (the Cat Thinkers are for the stage).

the Dog Thinker, as difficult as they may be in their closest relationships with the Cat Thinkers, in their communities they are indispensable. They keep the wheels turning, they make things happen. Nothing would ever get done without them. They offer a family on a larger scale; they build villages out of individual houses and they bring people together.

In communities, the Cat Thinkers are the performers that the Dog Thinker ask to entertain audiences (from a stage) at community events – and typically, they happily accept. They are in a leadership position of some description, a “stand-alone” of some kind. They love helping out as long as their interaction is “free form,” their thing. The Cat Thinkers don’t fit in as one of the crowd. Normally, that is clear to everyone; there’s no reason to change that.

What the Dog Thinker don’t need to do is to feel sorry for putting the Cat Thinkers up to tasks that the Dog Thinker hate the most: public speaking, solo singing, performing… Even fighting the community’s battles for them. All of those things are a pleasure for a Cat Thinkers. They love a pedestal and added responsibility, and they love to be asked to go on stage for any reason… As much as the Dog Thinker hate it, the Cat Thinkers love it… As long as they know what they’re doing. (Don’t ask a painter to sing a song. ;p)

the Dog Thinker love being one of the many.

Whenever you think of the Dog Thinker and the Cat Thinkers, the former are the choir, the latter are the soloist. The Cat Thinkers hate to vanish into the mass, and the Dog Thinker hate to be pointed out. No matter how good singer the Dog Thinker is, they hate the idea of singing the solo. No matter how talentless a Cat Thinkers is, they always want to stand out. Typically, the Cat Thinkers are quite aware of their short comings, but not always, but they’ll always thrive to be better and to be good enough to be pointed out as “one to look at.”

the Dog Thinker family maybe immensely proud of their Cat Type Thinking* member of the family, but they would hate to be paraded around like a trophy. A Cat Type Thinking* family member feels this is shame. If and when their Lover-thinking* family tries to keep them hidden, they feel their family is ashamed of them and their difference. In truth, the Dog Thinker want to hide their difference, yes, but only because they don’t want to force their loved one into the lime light that they, themselves would loathe.

(This is one of the reasons why “do onto others as you’d do to yourself” is a horrible piece of advice.)

One more thing communities will have to know and accept.

While the Dog Thinker make excellent partners, they only make excellent partners to another the Dog Thinker. These two thinker types do not mix as best friends or romantic partners. This HAS TO BE taken into account when pairing people. A the Cat Thinkers won’t easily obviously reject people. They feel it’s rude. They try excuses at first. A the Dog Thinker will say a stinking hell no to begin with but come around eventually. A the Cat Thinkers shows reluctance, that to the Dog Thinker almost looks like hidden pleasure. It is very, very important to know whether someone is a Cat Thinkers or the Dog Thinker before you try to force them together.

And, what sometimes looks like a lover’s quarrel, can be a Cat Thinkers who is absolutely genuinely opposed to a union with someone, to the maximum level – they may absolutely despise someone. For a Cat Thinkers to strongly, and brutally and loudly – even to their own families – reject someone, it MUST BE respected. They are basically fighting for their romantic life to not be slaughtered, and ignoring it, thinking it’s “cute” or just a lover’s quarrel, is just about as cute as ripping someone’s skin of insisting it’s just his jacket. Do not take this lightly, even if the one to object is a man, and “there is absolutely nothing wrong with the girl we have chosen for him.”

the Cat Thinkers should be community cupids, really.

Sadly, the Cat Thinkers are typically not involved in these conversations because they like to keep out of other people’s love lives out of the deep respect for them. But truth be told, they would make excellent community cupids. MUCH better than even the most involved Lover-thinking* match maker… And on top of that, the Cat Thinkers would LOVE playing cupid in a small town, but they would need the community’s permission to do it, generally speaking. They know what it feels like when relationships are forced upon people against their will, so they don’t do such things without being trusted with the task. This permission could be informally requested from a few people, however.

the Cat Thinkers would typically even pair the Dog Thinker absolutely masterfully with just a little remote training from yours truly. ;p (I will have to make that into an online course. :D) They know when one person is sexual and when the other one is less so, and they would NEVER pair a non-sexual person with a sexual one, like the Dog Thinker do without a second thought. Another thing that the Dog Thinker are typically bat-blind to is people’s IQ, where a Cat Thinkers will know instinctively if two people are intellectually or philosophically compatible or not.

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