Monday, June 21, 2021

working cats?

 Today is Take Your Cat to Work Day.  My west coast brother invited his cat Ace to go to work with him but Ace informed him that this is an "ill conceived holiday as cats and work seldom go together."  I think Ace is right.  Through the years that I was married and raising children, my husband and I gave house space to five cats - Buckeye, Olympia, Athena, Frances and Claire. Not all at the same time!  All females and all, as far as I can recall, completely opposed to work.  One caught a bird that got in the house and a couple of them liked to chase field mice that occasionally got into our garage when we lived in the country.  But I really don't think they considered this work.  Dogs, on the other hand, really can work.  Not my dogs mind you.  Remington and Heidi really didn't do much more than the cats.  But some dogs herd cattle or sheep, retrieve game or chase down criminals.  Even my dogs would fetch.  Have you ever tried to get a cat to fetch anything?  But cats are, and this is important, champion nappers.  Perhaps their job in the great scheme of things is to teach this skill to humans.

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