questionable....

 Today is "Answer Your Cat's Questions Day."  I was confused when my west coast brother texted me this information because, in my experience cats don't ask questions, they simply give quiet royal commands.  Now dogs will ask questions.  During my adult life I've shared my home with an assortment of cats and dogs.  Dogs will run to you when you walk in the door (regardless of how long you've been gone) asking "Where have you been?" Why did you leave me behind?" "Do you still love me?"  Cats on the other hand, if they deign to notice you've been gone at all, will stroll toward you, look you up and down, say "Oh, it's you." and "Feed me."  Don't get me wrong. I really like cats.  They can be loving and cuddly, but only on their own terms.  I once had two cats, females from the same litter, Clair and Frances, who came to live with me with my daughter and her two children when they moved home temporarily after her divorce.  Sometime later, when she remarried (much better choice the second time) and moved with her children into her new husband's home, the cats stayed behind.  Funny how that happens sometimes.  These two cats were very snuggly but only one at a time.  They were, however, very good about taking turns.  I would be sitting in my rocker with one cat on my lap, reading or watching TV, look down a little later, and it would be her sister on my lap.  Still a little later they would have swapped places again, but I never caught them at it.  This really worked out very well because I could pat a cat as long as I liked, but each of them could move on when they had had enough. Cats do like to set the limits when it comes to snuggling.  Dogs, of course, will sleep on your lap forever.  The bigger the dog, the longer the snuggle, or maybe it just seems that way.