dog people and cat people....

with the death of dog roscoe I have gone through a great deal

all sorts of revelations about empathy and understanding
being able to flashback to each and every one of my friends who has ever lost a pet
and my inability to really grasp what they went through

even now
I see that as much as any one person may love their pet
they still can not fully empathize for another and their loss

a funny revelation about the cat and dog people

when a cat is really really cool....
the cat owner will boast that their cat is like a dog
when a dog is really cool
the owner often boasts about how much like a person that dog is