The comfort of his company
Nov. 3rd, 2005 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonMy friend and I were just discussing as to how kitties don't feel any need to be polite when you're pouring out your daily woes to them. They listen for a bit, but if it gets too pedestrian or repetitive, they feel no compunction about saying, "Sorry, I gotta go outside and eviscerate a bird or something." And they leave you—zippo—just like that.
Dogs, on the other hand, are always the good son or daughter. They nod and smile at everything you say, they'll listen forever—just to be in your presence is reward enough. Of course, sometimes they retaliate at a particularly excruciating part of your narrative by letting forth with noxious fumes—but they're always smiling when they do it. And if you're really down and crying, they get worried and protective and they lick your face and just want mom or dad to be happy again.
Cats will sometimes lick your face, but you don't really want that. Unless you're fond of sandpaper and fish facials. But they will rub your legs and make sweet little mewly noises, and rub their heads against your hand, and climb up into your lap and wrap themselves into warm, purring balls of comfort. Sometimes even after you've used the can opener.
I had one cat, Mack, who was especially good at giving comfort—big ol' tan-colored Tom who'd been through the wars and had two cauliflower ears to prove it. Comfort Kitty always seemed to know who was having the bad day in the household and he'd climb into their lap and rub and purr ferociously and plop his twenty pounds onto your legs and purr some more and drool... But it was a good drool, a pure essence of comfort drool, a "I love you and you're a good person even if you didn't feed me tuna" drool. And it always worked, that magic elixir. You always felt better afterwards.
Between a dog's laughing lick and a cat's drooling purr, I'd be hard-pressed to say which is more comforting. All I know is, they are sometimes the best people to have around when things get rough.
Dogs, on the other hand, are always the good son or daughter. They nod and smile at everything you say, they'll listen forever—just to be in your presence is reward enough. Of course, sometimes they retaliate at a particularly excruciating part of your narrative by letting forth with noxious fumes—but they're always smiling when they do it. And if you're really down and crying, they get worried and protective and they lick your face and just want mom or dad to be happy again.
Cats will sometimes lick your face, but you don't really want that. Unless you're fond of sandpaper and fish facials. But they will rub your legs and make sweet little mewly noises, and rub their heads against your hand, and climb up into your lap and wrap themselves into warm, purring balls of comfort. Sometimes even after you've used the can opener.
I had one cat, Mack, who was especially good at giving comfort—big ol' tan-colored Tom who'd been through the wars and had two cauliflower ears to prove it. Comfort Kitty always seemed to know who was having the bad day in the household and he'd climb into their lap and rub and purr ferociously and plop his twenty pounds onto your legs and purr some more and drool... But it was a good drool, a pure essence of comfort drool, a "I love you and you're a good person even if you didn't feed me tuna" drool. And it always worked, that magic elixir. You always felt better afterwards.
Between a dog's laughing lick and a cat's drooling purr, I'd be hard-pressed to say which is more comforting. All I know is, they are sometimes the best people to have around when things get rough.
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Date: 2005-11-04 01:09 am (UTC)Felix is very dog-like (I suspect he thinks he's half dog) and always wants to cuddle. Fisen on the other hand is cat with capital "C" and yet he gives out abundant cuddles when someone is upset. :)
Jonesy is still only a kitten, but he's an in your face and lick until theres no skin left kind of guy.
Can't chose between cat-comforting or dog-comforting either. Both are equally helpful.
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