A Strong Siamese...Modest Too

MARCIMOM9@aol.com wrote:

Dear Boomer,

I, being a sophisticated, strong, confident Siamese cat would like to ask you a question. My name is Rebel, I am from the south, as my name implies, born and raised in the great state of Mississippi until travels brought us to this cold, cold state.  I would like to know why dogs feel they are superior to cats, and why they hate us so much.  I am a lover, not a fighter but dogs who see me act like they would like to tear me to pieces and have me for dinner. Is it just a dog thing? Or somewhere in history did cats do something horrible to dogs to cause this? Or is it just that dogs know that we felines are a superior race? At least in my humble opinion, that is.

Dear Rebel,

Humans have perpetuated myths for as long as they have been on this earth.  I counted two myths in your letter that have been made up and passed down by humans.    Dogs do not discriminate against cats when it comes to superiority.  Dogs just know they are superior to every living thing.  I’m sure you can relate to that.

According to canine ancestral memory, dogs and cats are co-equal races, having a common ancestor.  Humans have “muddied up the water” by breeding dogs for hunting, fighting, pulling, and much more.  Cats have been historically bred for their looks.  No human should tolerate a dog as part of his family or pack that would assault a cat. The same is true of cats and their human subjects.

Your question is so excellent, if you don’t mind, I will post it on my blog, <boomerdadog.wordpress.com> for everyone to read.  You are the first cat to write me.  Would you be the first on my blog?  Puuurhaps together we could show how compatible dogs and cats can be. To paraphrase Alphonse de Lamartine,  “The more  I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dog /and  cat/. ”

Boomer