NOTE: Sometimes in my quest to make a living off the written word, I am tasked with the truly amazing, like pitting the editors of "Cat Fancy" and "Dog Fancy" against each other. Enjoy.

First “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” stunned critics by taking in almost $30 million in its opening weekend. Then “Marley and Me” took the holidays by storm, earning more than $125 million since its Christmas Day opening. And this weekend, “Hotel for Dogs” joins the fray, hoping to cash in on the latest canine craze. Hollywood has gone to the dogs, as it were.

“Dogs are hot right now,” says Susan Chaney, editor of Dog Fancy magazine. “Even people who don’t like dogs aren’t likely to say so for fear of being uncool or something.”

But what about the cats? “There are many heartwarming stories about cats and how they touch people’s lives, too,” says Susan Logan, the editor of Cat Fancy magazine. Logan points to the film adaptation of the book “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World,” currently in development and set to star Meryl Streep, as evidence that cats will have their cinematic day in the sun as well.

And it’s no accident that “Dewey” was a book first. “Reading and books lend themselves to having a cat on your lap,” Logan says. “Book-lovers and cat-lovers tend to go together.”

As for the rivalry? Logan says there is none. “I loved ‘Marley and Me,’” she says. “Whether dog people or cat people, we both appreciate how important pets are to us.”