Couldn’t agree with you more. Hampton Roads area Virginia was a smile-in-yo-face, knife you in the back, hypocritical hell-hole to endure for eight years. “Bless their hearts.” Genuine friends always came from some other state. Was glad to leave. I’d gladly live in New York. People there are rushed, but the kindest…

I lived in Manhattan (Ft. Washington area) for over a year. Some of the warmest and kindest people I have ever met in my life lived in Manhattan...relative to the other places I have lived (Des Moines, Milwaukee, Washington D.C., Chicago, San Jose,...)

True that! The Southerners are so disingenuous and FOS it makes you want to punch them in the face! You talk to one and hear him bragging how “... he has lots of Black friends...!” and then complains about ‘Black Lives Matter’ Activists “ ... Stirrin’ up trouble !” When they protest police abuse or Civil War statues…

I’ve lived in NYC on-and-off my whole life, living in the UK, Syracuse, Seattle, San Jose, Atlanta, Austin, even Birmingham, AL (deservedly at the bottom of the list), and I can tell you unequivocally that you will find more random acts of kindness in the Big Apple than almost anywhere on the planet. I am not joking.…

To the woman on the girder, I am so sorry your life has you on the edge. You are not crazy, you just need someone to help you deal with problems in your life. You are not alone.

I thought it was already well known that domesticated cats were more similar to their feral feline cousins than domesticated dogs were to feral dogs and wolves, owing to the fact that dogs were domesticated many thousands of years before cats (dogs had more hunting and hauling utility). Nevertheless, this merely…

I think you're right. And cats are small enough that if they don't want to deal with strangers, there's no way to force them to and they can easily hide from sight.

When they're all certain breeds, especially Siamese and Balinese.

I think people who don't own cats see them as more aloof than they really are, because cats won't go meet human strangers that come into their house like dogs do (as a general rule).

I totally out-indifferent my roommate's cat. When my roommate is gone, it will freak out and start begging for my attention. I count it as a win for humanity.

When can we expect them to get the leash gene like dogs?