I'm not a cat person at all, but we've owned a number of cats over the years (while I was growing up). Cats are providers. My mom's cats (which are sisters) leave a dead mouse or mole at the doorstep several times a week. (Sometimes even a dead groundhog or a nice, fat rat.) They get along okay with the dogs, but they avoid the bigger ones. My mom's chihuahua, however, they will swat on the rump as he passes - not from meanness, but just because he's there. I've a feeling if the big dogs died, the cats would be indifferent. But something tells me if the little bugger died, they would mourn him.

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