I ' m not sure this is the norm around holidays , though . At my undergraduate institution , for instance , the university president and his wife would host a Thanksgiving dinner for students who had no other place to go , and he paid for it out of his own pocket . I guess I thought these gestures were more common . <| sep |> Well , some people are really dog people , others really cat people . Some people probably had bad experience with illtempered cats or their personality just doesn ' t match with owning a cat . Personally , I like both dogs and cats , though I don ' t own either . If I had to pick one , a cat would suit my personality better being more of the introverted type . The one thing I don ' t get goldfish . Most boring pet ever , and we had some .