Access Design, Cats/Dogs
  How to design your home to permit or block access by humans, dogs, and cats to different areas.
  The Adventures of Felix Cull, Cat-Man
  The cloning of cat and man resulted in Felix, who has had quite a time adjusting to life in the human world. Here is a collection of his social, athletic, and romantic adventures, and a photo.
  Advice for Cat Owners
  Every wondered about the semiotics of kitty's "gift" of a nearly-dead rodent? This essay explains it all.
  Canines, Felines, and Respect
  The respect we accord to dogs is unrelated to their size, but with cats, our respect is directly correlated to how big they are.
  Cat Fanatics
  How to distinguish a true cat fanatic from a mere cat lover.
  Catma
  If there's "dogma" and "dogmatics", surely there must be "catma" and "catmatics"...
  DeNotrechats
  While the "Dogs Played Poker" in the famous scene, what were the cats doing? They were up in the manor house, dressed elegantly and playing bridge.
  Falling Victim to Nature's Fury: The Canine and Feline Models
  I've lived in both Boston and San Francisco. This essay expands on the very different sorts of dread I've felt in those two places.
  Fox Hunting Explained
  Celebrating people's bucolic romps with Man's Best Friends and Third Best Friends.
  Friendly Joshing During the Grand Prix d'Evolution
  For millions of years three orders competed to be top dog on Earth: primates, felines, and canines. Here's how they teased one another.
  GOTCHA! A Wilderness Game for Two Players
  The rules and strategy of an ancient game, played between prey and predator.
  The Hidden Kingdom of Marsupials
  Speculation on advanced evolution in an ice-shrouded, Antipodean, soon-to-be-Antarctic place.
  How to Issue Commands to Your Pet
  Good pet instruction is simply good journalism- but cats need nine pages where dogs need one.
  Notes Concerning the Enfranchisement of Cetacea
  What it would mean to give whales and dolphins the vote.
  A Notice to DOG LOVERS of San Francisco
 
  Otello the Maor
  Visualizing the lethal interaction of man and moa in the New Zealand of a thousand years ago.
  Pets and Spiritual Health
  How Fido and Tiger enable you to become more loving, more centered, more blissful.
  A Social Class Analysis of Vegetables
  An assignment of vegetables into refined patrician or coarse plebeian classes. Future dinner hosts of mine, take note!
  SYLLABUS First North American Interspecies Conference on the Future of Predation
  Prey and predator join together for an interspecies conference on the future of predation.
  These are the Cat Days of Autumn
  A cat lover's claim for equal time with "Dog Days", in autumn rather than summer.
  Tuning In To the Intergalactic Purr
  The cat's purr as resonant with a pervasive intergalactic Intelligence.
  Two Dialogues on "Apetheid"
  An account of the strange system of "apetheid", or the "separate development of pet species", which was devised by cats to keep dogs in their place.
  Why Can't a Dog Be More Like a Cat?
  An examination of that famous musical-comedy song from the 1940s, first sung by Rex Harrison.
   

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