U.S. News & World Report tells us the most popular cat names

Full disclosure, I’m a dog person. Not a cat guy.

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Now I’ve had both, but not since I was a kid. I’ve been around cats enough, either my own before I was fourteen or other people’s, to know why I prefer dogs.

Dogs have personality. Distinct, clear personalities. Cats have arrogance.

Dogs have loyalty. Cats have it too, for only themselves.

Dogs are playful and can be taught tricks. Cats could be taught if they let you, but they’d rather just attack you and draw blood.

Yes, cats don’t like you. I’ve seen it over and over. Owners are doing everything to make a cat happy, while the cat sits there indifferently, only to suddenly snap and sink its claws into the meat of your forearm.

They will pretend to like you long enough to get food out of you. Then they will turn on you like a “Sopranos” character.

But I will never convince the 672,245 cat-owning households in New Jersey that your cat would definitely kill you if it were bigger. (Spoiler: it would.) So this is for you diehards. This is for the cat people of the Garden State.

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U.S. News & World Report put out a survey of the most popular cat names in the country.

If you like being popular, maybe you’ll be glad to see your kitty’s name on the list. If you like being original, maybe you won’t. Maybe you've suffered so much blood loss from cat wounds that you don't know what you like. Whatever.