Good point - Now I know why I wouldn&#x27;t eat certain animals but is perfectly content to eat beef.<p>I&#x27;ve seen bulls, and they wouldn&#x27;t mind knocking my eyes out with their horns if I stood next to their grass.<p>But with, say, cats, even when I was messing with her petting her fur the wrong way, she&#x27;d retaliate by making a noise and scratching me only lightly and mostly unharmed. The same gesture is not extended to guests.<p>Once during a chess game, she was watching us moving chess pieces move by move, and my cat, with her paw, moved a pawn side ways one step, matching the squares and lines of the board perfectly, even if the pawn could not legally move there.<p>I&#x27;d look into her eyes pet her fur, and she&#x27;d look back into mine, and pet my cheeks back. I&#x27;d talk to her and she&#x27;d meow back at me, sentence for sentence.<p>Oh and sometimes when she was trapped inside the house, she takes her dump in the shower.<p>There was a mind behind her eyes.