Since all my dogs have been acquired as adults, I'm abstaining. Otherwise, I'd vote for kitties, as they are what I know. I bottle-raised a litter of 3 of them once, and they were just insanely CUTE, and it was so cool watching them learn to do everything (walk, climb stairs, use the litter box, find various hiding spots in the sofa, get stuck in the sofa once they got too big for said spots...)
Hmm...another thing swaying me in the direction of kitties: puppies have to be housebroken. The kitties knew exactly what the litter box was for the moment I put them in it!
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When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose[/size]