Personally I can not stand house cats. I love wild cats like tigers, lions, panthers, but house cats are so annoying. They seem to be so needy and demanding, and they freaking barf up their hair balls all over the carpet too.
If attacked by a bear, or if I fall into a pool I know my dog would try save me, but I'm 100% certain a cat would do nothing to help, if anything it would help the bear eat me...
I'll get off my soap box now, but I wanted to see how many people actually like cats. I volunteer at a animal shelter and we constantly have no dogs since people adopt them, but we have tons of cats because nobody seems to want to adopt cats.