My youngest daughter taught me how to appreciate and love cats and to discover all their quirkiness and favorite rubbing spots, etc. Cats are black belt alanons -- they are great teachers of setting boundaries, making you give them distance, not confiding in you!! I never thought in my life I would even put up with a cat.
(Just one mass of love)
Dogs teach unconditional love -- probably why we're so crazy about them. They love us no matter what and show it. They are people pleasers perfected.
Cats can put you down, ignore you, give you the see you later and whatever attitude.
Dogs can't get enough of you, love you just the way you are. They are forgiving. They can't do enough for you. They are everything we want in a mate and more.
Maybe I should make my god-de-jour a dog.
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Bout time you posted something here, Jo Jo!!! Writing is your forte' and it is the best therapy. What, with all the balls you are juggling right now, can't imagine why you don't just "squeeze blood out of a turnip," for crying out loud! Get your writer's high on! Put those knitting needles down and put your fingers on the keys more often! Big sissy's orders! xoxo
Andy: My ego's back arched and its claws hissed out when you referred to my first "blot" as sweet, fluffy, nice. But as you know by now, since I have had the happy privilege of reading your scoop on cats, the cat made me do it! Thanks for even looking at my first which was, originally, just a short email to one of my sisters who encouraged me to make this my first post. I'm an OS virgin and, by the looks of it, should stay one! Keep my you-know-what intact!
Mary: You made me do it! Thanks a mil! I mean it. Now your public will have the privilege of becoming acquainted with yet another sister. Yeah. I'm coming out of the closet. Your readers will sympathize with you for having survived your childhood despite us! And I have now met Andy, the only non-sister, who read my blob. He is a sensational, imaginative, daring, original writer. You oughta read what he thinks about cats! Unnerving!
Congrats on your first post. You three sisters aren't the witches of Eastwick by any chance? Just checking. Gotta keep all my options open.
It's weird about cats isn't it? Both our first blogs. I would have sworn mine would have been political, witty, intelligent. But, no! It was about a cat. What can I say? And it was sweet and fluffy -- the blog not the cat. Aargh! I gotta read your piece.
Oh and BTW, my daughter's new cat Jack taught us how to play fetch. I'm serious. We throw a mouse and he catches it and brings it back like a dog and waits for us to throw it again, and again, and again......
If seems as likely that we did the same with cat.
I'd rather sit on a dog than a tac.
???? whatever
I'm a Cat-Dog kind of person. ~nodding~ :)
Pawed.
Cats love ya too, we just don't slobber all over ya!
~fatRocco and feralRusty