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“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.”

How Cats Have Learned to Manipulate Their Humans

Zulie Rane

1 min readMar 3, 2020

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I love this quote!

Deborah Barchi

Written by Deborah Barchi

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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