[bearclaw]

We had 3 cats. A mother and 2 nearly grown kittens. Last week, the mother decided that she needed 2 more kittens so now we're looking at 5. 2 are only 4 days old though.

When the first 2 kittens were still really small, the ONLY place they would sleep is on me. On my back, legs, side, whereever I stopped moving. Now that they are older, one of them has taken a liking to sleeping on my head at night. No one else's head will do. Has to be mine.

We've also got a dog. 70 lbs rotwiler lab cross. She loves the cats too. She's the only dog who roams the neigbourhood freely (only one behaved enough, I think), so our cats have no fear. They've got the ultimate backup.

The neighbor cats will actually come over to our house, scratch on the door and when I open it, our cats will run out to go 'play'. My wife asked "Why would the other cats do something like that?"

My answer was: Think of it like this, to cats and dogs, they live in a world where might makes right. If it were humans and everyone had a gun, wouldn't you want to be friends with the only guy on the street who owns a tank?