I Think My Dog Hates Me

I think my dog hates me perhaps because he listens to my cat I know my cat hates me probably because I think he’s my cat. The cat hates the dog just because he’s a cat, at heart, a homicidal sociopath with claws. The dog is slightly neurotic and paranoid never knowing when the cat will strike again. Each morning, like 4 AM, I let the cat out, OK, he howls at the door and torments the dog until I let him out. As he leaves I shout “have a nice day, go kill something”. He usually does and often brings it home for my perusal. The dog just shakes his head and longs for the good old days back at the shelter. My neighbor hates me because my cat uses his flower garden as his litter box. The cats picture is posted in the Vets office with one of those red circle/slashes over it. She told me that this cat, my cat, was fiendishly feral, that I was enabling his insanity by refusing to take him to therapy. The dog whimpered, probably thinking about the fact the cat still had about seven lives left. John G. Lawless ©5/13/2019