Sighthounds & Other Strangers

People think their relations with dogs and cats are somehow trivial, a side effect of their more important lives. Not true at all.

Lived all my life in the company of dogs and cats. My dad, I have to admit, used to try to run down cats in his car. I never did. Then, when I was 21 and I was in a kind of binge problem thing, I found a kitten curled up outside the porch of my family house.

I named him Webster after a cat in a P.G. Wodehouse novelette because I was a precious thing in those ...