How are dog people and cat people different?

Are you a dog person?

Or a cat person?

A story posted at CNN today reports that a new study has come up with some distinctions:

 

 

 

From the story:

 

About 4,500 participants answered questions that measured their personality inclinations in five areas: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

These five dimensions have been shown in previous research to encompass most personality traits. They also indicated whether they considered themselves cat people, dog people, both or either.

It turns out that the "dog people" -- based on how people identified themselves, not on what animals they actually own -- tend to be more social and outgoing, whereas "cat people" tend to be more neurotic but "open," which means creative, philosophical or nontraditional ...

Read the story and tell us what you think. Do they get it right?

While I consider myself officially still a "dog" person (and personality type), I do like cats, too. That's one of my 2 dogs, Tess, and her cat, Border Kitty Annie, in the photos above.