You are mistaken! You do not ‘own’ your cats. THEY own YOU! Unless and until you cease providing food and shelter and all they deem that they need, THEN they will dump you like a hot potato! You are theirs, they are not yours.
Oooohhh nnnoooooees! Say it ain't so! I tell them what to do after they've shown me what they're going to do! I'm always right when I do it that way. That makes me the boss, doesn't it? ......
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[whimpering] ... doesn't it?
Dogs have owners.
Cats have staff.