Don't guess we're allowed to stretch that in an analogy to people, countries, etc..are we? /sarcasm off
We had a cat once by the name of Coyote. One morning I was in the bathroom getting ready to go to work. The door was open and Coyote kept coming and meowing in an agitated manner. Then he would walk away, look back to see if I was following. I couldn't figure out what he wanted so I followed him. He stopped outside the kitchen where a kitchen towel was on fire near where I was boiling water for coffee. Coyote helped by preventing a fire. He was an intelligent cat.