About an hour ago, I posted a joke video, “Cat welcomes soldier home.”
I had meant this post for tomorrow, but I’m publishing it now so there’ll be no misunderstanding about the joke video.
While cats do seem more aloof compared to dogs, cat-owners know it doesn’t mean cats don’t care — or we wouldn’t have cats!
Cats just express themselves differently than dogs. Dogs wear their hearts on their “sleeves”; cats are more subtle.
When I returned home after a week’s trip to Moscow in 1990, a year before the Soviet Union imploded, my Charles Elmo (who was my only cat and pet at the time) came running to the door, crying. (I had hired a neighbor to look in on Charles twice a day.)
Some years later, my teaching schedule included a three-hour evening class. Every night when I came home after that class, I would find Gabriel and Christopher waiting at the door, in the dark.
I would scoop them up, a fluffy purring Persian in each arm. What joy . . . .
Here are some videos of cats welcoming their humans home:
~Eowyn
