Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 12, 2013

Many animals are good judges of people. One time I lived in a townhouse Apartment complex. many of my neighbors had to walk past my kitchen window on the way to their own back doors. My cat would sun himself at that window all of the time… there was one man, a family man about my age with kids, he appeared to me and my family to be a good person, always helpful, polite, kind, and had a strong faith in God… But every time he’d walk by our back window, if the cat was there, our cat would stand up and arch his back and hiss like crazy. Every time. after the first few instances of seeing my cat’s reaction to this guy, I never trusted or became close to him. I observed him and found him to be false and putting on an act. I would trust my cat’s opinion of a person before my own judgment or the word of another.