I'm going to have to start by saying I love people, and I love animals, I even love people who own animals. I've had pets myself, and I'm not attacking you personally when I say...

THIS IS TOTAL INSANITY!!!!

People who are obsessed with anthropomorphizing domesticated animals are really starting to freak me out. (Consider the wing-nuts who care for feral cat colonies even though they decimate the local ecosystem, and in Texas, kill off endangered species!)

At a certain point we have to consider the situation realistically and draw some boundries, because it seems like our love could very well qualify as animal cruelty.

After all, isn't treating an animal like a human, and placing upon it the expectations and burden of fictive human emotional relationship really unfair to the animal?

Look at what we've done to them in the name of our narcissistic obsession! We are destroying them to satisfy our own emotional needs.

Don't be cruel to your cat: be realistic.