I've always thought that with dogs being domesticated is like a job. Sometimes it's a good job and you get to hang out with good people doing fun stuff. Other

I've always thought that with dogs being domesticated is like a job. Sometimes it's a good job and you get to hang out with good people doing fun stuff. Other times it's a crap job and the boss will either forgot to pay you or beat you with a stick. With cats on the other hand domestication is like a room you rent out at a house when you're college. The people there might be cool - the rent is so low it might as well be free and most of the time they don't care if you steal their food. In the back of the cat's head (and I think this is true for the most pampered domesticated cat in the world) is the knowledge that it's a place to crash and if things get too weird they can always bail out. From that point of view I tend to give cats a lot more leeway. I mean a cat doesn't really have to pop over onto my lap and let me scratch it's head. It's the one putting itself out there in a reasonably genuine way. Dogs though I'm always a bit suspicious of because popping over to have their had scratched? That's their job. Maybe they like me but it's like when you go to McDonald's and the person behind the counter smiles and asks you if you want fries with that as if you're the best person in the world.