Dear Pet…

If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?

I really do admire pet owners. I’ve heard new pet owners peeve a lot about how so very humane pets can be and how so connected they feel to their pets and it is interesting. Of course there are people who take it to the extremes and share food bites with their pets and I wish I could say that it’s a nice thing to behold.

However, how people have come to relate with their pet animals has me wondering what the definition of emotional bestiality would have been if someone tried to give it a meaning and make it a concept for humans to learn.

And pet owners are incredibly loving people too, except that they are mostly only incredibly loving towards their pet animals. Perhaps because pets can’t speak about the quality of love they are getting from their owners in terms of actual reciprocity.

Perhaps pet ownership is where we go to hide our emotional unresponsiveness or emotional irresponsibility? Because animals accept everything and ask for nothing specifically but humans have very specific love needs, most of which are bordering on reciprocity and that might be too much a responsibility to learn, so we get a pet instead.

Well I’ll never know these things but I know that if I had a pet it would be a cat and I would like let the cat know that it is loved but it remains a domestic animal and has no place to receive the kind of love and affection that is reserved for a child(even if it is not my child), or a lover. I would like the cat to know that I’m not its parent in any way, I’m its owner and owner only. But alas, I can’t own one even if I wanted to!