Dogs or cats? Do you own one and if you do, what breed?
Rats! I used to have two of them, but they passed a few years ago.
I also enjoy cats, but haven't had one since my baby (an adorable green-eyed female Calico) died about 6 years ago at the ripe old age of 19 (and 4 months). She was the most darling lap-cat you could ever meet, a real attention whore who wouldn't hesitate to place your hand upon her head for scratchies if you weren't paying attention to her.
Her name was Dolphin, and we got her when I was fairly young (six or eight or so). The house I lived in at the time had a "huge backyard" (it was actually a field that was sitting fallow, but my young mind saw it as "our backyard" since I always played in it). I wanted to dig a big hole in the backyard, fill it with water, and get a pet Dolphin, but my parents didn't want to do that. We compromised with a cat named Dolphin, instead.
I have no pets right now, but if I ever got another pet, with either be another pair of rats (adorable critters!) or a catsnake ferret. The only concern I have with ferrets is their propensity to poop in every corner they can find if their litter box is more than five feet from them.
What have you nerds been playing in between stratops?
During downtime in EVE, I tend to try to catch up on my Steam backlog. I recently broke the 20% mark for games played vs. games owned!
Your alliance/Corp leadership is torn on who to join, so they come to you. Who do you help?
As a wormholer and industrialist with enough alts to have eyes and ears in pretty much every group who matters, if anyone actually came to me, I would advise not to join any group, but instead to remain independent while abusing inside information to sell the necessary goods in the necessary locations to profit off the war.
I would hope that the war would continue indefinitely and would go to fairly extensive lengths to ensure a drawn-out conflict with mass casualties on all sides.
War is peace.
Hatred is love.
Conflict is compassion.
Only when murder is rampant and the stars are stained red with blood am I ever truly happy in EVE, as supplying the continuous slaughter of the brain-dead line-members is one of the most lucrative endeavors that exists in this game.