And you thought you knew us...

After dinner tonight we were watching a bird, which flew away after being scared by the appearance of Sugar, our interested if completely incapable hunter of moving creatures, large and small. Our dinner conversation took a turn that was typical of us. After thoroughly discussing our cat's hunting history (dismal) and determining she would never survive much past our demise, Michelle remembered a commonly held maxim about pets: if you die in your home, dogs would not eat you, but cats would. Michelle's interpretation of this somewhat dubious fact is that cats are smarter than dogs because they have better survival instincts. We then went on to speculate about our specific cats, and Brandon's observation was that the cats would probably starve unless some other scavenger opened up a body first. Then, in his words, the cat would finally notice and think "Hey! There's meat! Where did that come from?". we all agreed, and reflecting on what a weird (and yet completely normal for our family) conversation that was, we had a laugh and I decided to write it up. So now you know. Normal people really are just people you don't know that well.