Hi, Ruru the Cat, here. I've been watching my fellow four-legged people in this house here, and I've noticed not everybody seems to see others in the same way. See, for me, everybody is pretty much the same. I'll take dogs, cats, people and snuggle up to them. As long as they treat me okay--and fill my bowl--they are all right with me. Of course, my special person is all rightER. I will sit and let her rearrange my face, drag me around by the armpits, play with my tail, whatever as long as it means I'm getting her love. I won't let just anyone be that forward. In fact, I'll let others play with me, even the puppy now, but then I have to clean off their germs. Except my person. I like smelling like my person. It reminds me of her when she's not holding me. Maia's kind of the same except dogs are scary to her. Maybe that's because Daisy would chase her. But other than her special person, everyone else is pretty much the same to her. We're the dog-like cats. Scoutie is even more extremely like this. He will take love from anyone, anytime, but he never looks so happy as when he's in his people's arms. We're the dog-like cats. We're loyal and loving to just about everyone who is loyal and loving to us.
See, Daisy, the dog who just left us, and Baby, the cat who looks like me but doesn't act like me, seem to see everyone else in the universe as beneath them somehow. They only want attention when they're good and ready and in the mood. All other attention is unwelcome because everyone is inferior. Now, granted, for Daisy, she embraced any baby animals and treated them as something special. We funny looking puppies who were raised by her are definitely superior to the one and only cat she didn't raise. She never chased us. But pretty much everyone was inferior to her. Daisy is a cat-like dog while Baby is very much a cat-like cat. You can't get more cat than that.
Then there are Toothless and Dodger. Toothless is a black cat like Maia, but he doesn't act like Maia. Dodger is a pomeranian. Both of them act cat-like and uninterested in everyone else but their person. They are very dog-like and loyal to their person. Everyone, according to their estimation, is an inferior being to their person, even themselves. That's a kind of dog-like-cat-like-ness that I find weird and confusing. Are they dogs? Are they cats? who knows. They are just worshippers of their person.
Then there's Harmony, that weird puppy. She doesn't seem to get there ARE different breeds. She's dog-like and devoted to everyone because she sees everyone as equal. She doesn't seem to understand why she can't eat at the table or get her own plate. She's a person just like we cats are people. There is no difference to her. Except mean meanie heads. Big people, people who walk through front doors, and people who wear hats are scary mean meanie heads that make her bark and pee herself. Otherwise, everyone is loved alike and equal. It doesn't matter who they are. I can see being loving. I'm loving to everyone. But that is a bit over-the-top. One has to have some sense of descrimination.
Well, there you are. Now, you can look at the pets you know. Are they dog-like cats? Cat-like cats? Dog-like dogs? Cat-like dogs? Or something in between? How do your pets view the people around them?
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