Being Patted Is What It Is All

I Always Thought That My Canine Family Tended To View Me As The Funny-looking Two-legged Dog Who Runs The Can Opener.

Generally, Or At Least Very Often, People With A Deep Interest In Animals Are The Best People Around.

We Derive Immeasurable Good, Uncounted Pleasures, Enormous Security, And Many Critical Lessons About Life By Owning Dogs.

Cats Make One Of The Most Satisfying Sounds In The World: They Purr. [...] Almost All Cats Make Us Feel Good About Ourselves Because They Let Us Know They Feel Good About Us, About Themselves, And About Our Relationship With Them. A Purring Cat Is A Form Of High Praise, Like A Gold Star On A Test Paper. It Is A Reinforcement Of Soemthing We Would All Like To Believe About Ourselves -- That We Are Nice.

It's Our Mortality That Terrifies Us, Because What We're Really Seeking Is Immortality - That Is, After All, A Fool's Errand.