Inheritance vs enum properties in the domain model

Question

I had a discussion at work regarding \"Inheritance in domain model is complicating developers life\". I\'m an OO programmer so I started to look for arguments that having in

Answer 1

I'd urge you to reconsider: in an anemic domain model (per the comments above), cats don't behave differently than dogs, so there's no polymorphism. An animal's type really is just an attribute. It's hard to see what inheritance buys you there.