All the more reason he must clean! At least the places he is going to be. However, he might have to be creative in interpreting the sort of rules his kind lived by, given the exceptional circumstances he found himself under.<br/><br/>He yelped as he ends up forced upon the ground again, kneeling before her. He was not particularly fond of the wrist twist! But really, at this point, perhaps he should be expecting such uncouth treatment from his... host.<br/><br/>"Why would they do that?" He was unable to grasp or fathom a single reason why anyone could possibly be capable of such cruelty. Old as he was, he and his kind were prone to such innocence.  They lived such peaceful, boring lives, where the idea of great conflict was breaking some inanimate object to show that they had been disrespected by one or more of the occupants of a house.<br/><br/>He looked at her with such softness and sadness in his eyes, when she mentions the cage again, with such silent but obvious pleading and begging for her to not do such a thing,  he well and truly redefined what the phrase 'puppy-dog eyes' meant.<br/><br/>As she left, he gave only the barest of sobbing whimpers as he trailed behind her, following listlessly.