a cat is cat, always a cat, and knows its a cat
Boy! It seems that I have returned home and logged back onto to COTD Talk just in time!
Let me be explicitly clear about this: OLIVER DOES NOT THINK HE IS A DOG! OLIVER KNOWS HE IS A CAT! How many times must I repeat myself here on COTD? Does it not occur to all who write claiming that their cats think they are dogs, that their cats act like dogs, that if the numbers of cats who do these things are so huge perhaps these attributes are quite cat like and not at all limited to dogs?
I am going to prove my point right now. I am sitting here at my computer and the black cat is 8 feet away, atop the 55 gallon fish tank. I am going to call him and he is going to come running over.
"Jim! Here, Jim..." Well, what do you know? Before I could even vocalize the printed words he leaped to the floor and sprung onto my lap.
Now he is atop my monitor. I'll bet Oliver would be interested in sitting atop my monitor. Ever see a dog sit on a monitor?
No? I didn't think so. And yet, somewhere out there I am certain is a dog that sits atop a monitor. And should I ever meet that dog, I will not flatter her by saying he is like a cat.
I am going to send bus far down, so that Oliver can come up here and sit on my monitor - all you have to do is find a bus that goes all the way to Alaska.
Now Jim is in the window. Let me demonstrate once again. "Jim! Here Jim! Jimmy, Jimmy, Jim..."
... Well, he hopped down, walked to the door, pushed it open and left the room entirely.
Close enough. Proves my point.
Now I must feed some fish.