When Your Pets Do Creepy Stuff

[Ninurta]

Sorry you lost your dogs.

Had a lot more to say and decided it could wait.

Such is the nature of life.

I've only had one other dog since then, a hound of the "mountain cur" variety. He acted dumb as hell, but he wasn't - you just had to understand what he was trying to say, and communicate on his level, because he was not about to sink to yours. He got in a fight with a bear that tore him up a bit, and then after I got him all patched up and healed, the dumbass went back for a rematch, and was never seen again.

Right after we moved here, there was a more or less feral, outdoor cat that my sister fed and claimed as a pet. Blackie used to chase that cat every time he saw it, until one day I went out onto the deck, called him to me, and put his head between my hands, looked into his eyes and held his gaze, and said "That cat lives here same as you do. Leave it be". And you know, he never chased that cat again after that.

We briefly had another dog, for about a week, but it was young and rambunctious, and Grace couldn't keep up with it while I was at work, so we had to return it.

Now all we have is a couple cats (who are mortal enemies to one another), and believe it or not you really CAN'T herd the little bastards! If I didn't speak fluent cat, I'd not be able to do anything with them at all. I paid attention to how they spoke, and what each yowl or meow variant meant, and learned how to speak cat to gain control of them. If you speak human to them, they just kind of stare at you as if to say "how dare you speak that gutteral, vulgar  language to my royal majesty - begone with you!"

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