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猫を描く、犬を描かない。 (I draw cats, I don't draw dogs.)

How do you say that sentence without having to repeat 描かない? So it would be 'I
draw cats, not dogs.'
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How to say a sentence without repeating the word?
It's tricky in Japanese.  
for example

> 猫を描くが、犬はその限りではない。 ("その限りではない" is the same as "not" or close to it)

I'm a Japanese native speaker myself.  
But, I have no knowledge of another way to do it without repeating "描く".
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Depending on how attached you are to the original meaning, you could go with
something like "Instead of dogs, I draw cats": 犬のかわりに猫をかく。

Or go into why it is you don't draw dogs: 犬が好きじゃなくて、猫を書く。

But I'm not sure you're going to find a way to retain the simplicity and
precise meaning of your sentence and not repeat yourself.
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