JohnN:

I was generalizing and exaggerating cat owners who seem to love their pets because they consider them part of their family.

I am a dog person and although I do not expect favors to be repaid by every person or animal I help, I have a distinct and strong dislike for the aloof attitude cats have. Dogs are close to their owners and seem to involve themselves in the owners lives as well as really spoil us with the obvious and recurring attention and devotion they give us for what little we do for them.

The thing about this post that surprises me is that no one has expounded on the fact that by hurting herself or not being able to get out of the way of the firestorm, she doomed her beloved pets by the way she packed them. I am willing to bet she doesn't carry a knife to cut her cats loose, and even if she did, the firestorm could have caught her and her cats before she had a chance to free them.

Bountyhunter