> Just as an afterthought...What happens when the large metal beast spits you out, and you are carrying a fresh new bag of cat food? Does the cat then forgive the beast? Or does the cat just not put two and two together?
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> Ell"I think this is a rhetorical question"myruh

My cat likes to sleep on top of my car. I guess because it's warm. She isn't afraid of the car itself, but almost dies of terror at the sound of the garage door opening or closing.
As a side note on cat brain capacity: I used to get the big excited greeting when I came home from work, yes. I now work *at* home and I get the same big excited greeting roughly forty times a day, after I've been out of the room for maybe a minute or two. She's not the world's most intelligent creature, but certainly one of the most flattering.

Brunnen-"I'm not allowed to pick her up or cuddle her, but I'm not allowed out of her sight either"G