I have never seen anything on YouTube nor read anything on the web that matches our current conditions in this house with our two large dogs and six various cats. Everybody gets along with everybody else. Ruby, the Yellow Lab, has always been a companionable animal with every living creature she’s ever met, including not only our current clowder, but all the first generation cats in this house.

How do we make it all work? Through kindness and fairness. All living creatures understand those two fundamental acts. We are always kind to everyone, and we are fair whenever we do anything positive for the animals. What we do for one we try to do for all in some way. It’s like raising human children. We are kind to our animals and we play no favorites. No creature in this house feels the need to compete with the others for anything.

I wish the outside world were more like this, but as current events show it’s not.