I saw the difference when I returned home after a year in college where I still couldn’t recover from six years of school where I was abused every night up the wazoo grades dropped and I was having trouble because of the scars.
Three stray cats came to our porch.
And we loved each of them. Active, Passive, and BigCat.
Miss Active (full name: Active Color Matrix I), who lived 15 years before she was hit by a car accidentally, was the sweetest animal and I learned to tame her and she understood life. She was joined by my sister’s dog Nick (a toy poodle). Nick and Active became the best pair ever what when a stray came in 2019, I took her in and named her Active Color Matrix II (”Deuce”) in her honour. She even has a storyline where the original pair gave her to her master.
The original Miss Active allowed me to return to sanity.