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"Dudley Henriques" wrote:

"Jose" wrote in message
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aviation related content I flew myself down south to visit a friend of
a friend some years ago and /aviation related content he had two cats -
one of which knew it was a cat, the other of which must have been a dog in
cat's clothing. The owner spoke to it and it obeyed, just like a dog.
I'd never seen anything like it before, or since.

I think I can explain this.
This was probably the decoy cat for that year. Cats get together each year
and designate 1 cat to be what is known as the "designated decoy" cat. This
cat is specially trained by the other cats and surreptitiously inserted in a
randomly picked home with humans for the sole purpose of making humans
believe that cats can be trained as house pets.
It is assumed by the cats that the human picked will be totally fooled into
thinking that cats can be trained and spread the word, resulting in millions
of cats being allowed into other homes where they are fed, cared for, and
pampered by humans who have absolutely no idea that the cats are laughing
their asses off at the human's stupidity.
Hope this short synopsis helps a bit.
Dudley Henriques


Well, according to Chinese legend, cats once ruled the world, but they
got tired of the job and decided to turn it over to the second-most
intelligent species: man.

This legend would dovetail with Dudley's postulate.