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I love cats, but I've never been able to forget a little thing that ColdChef, I think, once said in a thread - it was something like 'the difference between dogs and cats is that a dog will wait a whole lot longer before eating its dead owner.'
Jeez, it's not like he was using that foot anymore. What's a cat supposed to do? I'm pretty sure that my one cat would be chewing on my within hours, she doesn't go long without food.
My (not so) little cat is fond of licking and tenderly biting on me and my wife. And we recognize the fact that our cats often stare at us to figure out where to bite first, once we keel over. I accept my place in the world, and in cats.