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Originally Posted by LavenderRott
Show me someone who has a beagle that is quite and never runs away from home and I will show you someone who has a beagle that barks all the time and can't be trusted to stay in the house when you try to squeeze your way out the front door. (You can probably substitute "beagle" in the above statement with just about any other breed of dog on the planet!")
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Even my cats (I know totally different species) can't be trusted with the door open (we have to toss a toy down the hall to distract and run out the door!). They've realised that this is the door where the humans leave and enter the area and so their curious. Thankfully they haven't made a real run for it yet (they're more curiously sitting at the doorway than anything) but I will bet you dollars to donuts that at some point they're gonna try!
My two cats meow a lot and I really don't mind since they seem to like talking to each other but I have been around cats where I have barely heard a peep out of them too. Prince, my old house cat (a roomate of mine took him), barely ever meowed. I can't remember the last time he meowed, of course he was an outdoor cat so maybe most of his meowing was outdoors instead of inside.
It really depends on the cat's personality (and by extension one would assume a dog's) and how their trained. My cats are allowed to meow all they want since they never do it in the bedroom while we're asleep but if it ever got to the point where they made me sleeping an issue I'd put a stop to it. Of course there are days when I believe that training a dog must be much easier!
Either way, listen to the others on here, they have great advice! And good luck with finding the perfect dog for you and your children!
Megan