Dog lovers come in all shapes and sizes, and it is curious that there are always comparisons between the dogs and their owners. Maybe how we choose our pets is a sub-conscious decision, and really we are picking out animals that represent our personalities, or maybe our physical traits, which might explain why so many dogs look like their owners (or vice versa).

Whether it's a chubby old man with his scruffy English bulldog, a shaggy-haired teenager with his poofy-maned Komondor, or a long-faced woman with her Doberman Pinscher, there can be many similarities noticed between the dog and the owner.

While it might not be polite to point out to your friend that she looks just like her chihuahua, or her sons look just like a pair of boxers, the canine kind not the fighters, there might just be some cosmic influence that makes us associate better with dogs (or cats?) that look like four-legged representations of ourselves. Is it some anthropomorphic coincidence that your girlfriend's curly locks look similar in colour and texture to her cockerspaniel, Derek? According to science, we aren't that much removed from our animal cousins--don't we share 97% of our DNA with monkeys???

While it's curious that people have a tendency to look like their dogs, the resemblances being fairly obvious even when the pooch isn't wearing a matching sweater, it's funny that no one every seems to make these human/animal comparisons when it comes to cats. Other than maybe the Catwoman, who doesn't really look like a cat, or those science experiments on the Island of Dr. Moreau (was the good doctor really an aspiring veterinarian?), there aren't many similarities between felines and fraulines. Maybe this is why dogs are more loyal than cats--they also recognize the similarities in appearance and endear themselves to their human masters.