I will not lie. I got teary eyed from this.

[Kev]

Without trying to sound really heartless it's only sad because you are projecting human emotions onto them.

The cat didn't even the know other cat was dead, not really. It obviously knew it wasn't behaving normally and so tried to interact with it, and then just sat down and went to sleep.

Only very few animals have been shown to grieve. Chimpanzees and elephants are the only animals that demonstrate signs of being capable of it and even in most chimps it's very short lived.

That cat really wasn't that bothered.

There are some great books on animals by Temple Grandin, an animal behaviour professor who also suffers from autism. She is known as the woman who thinks like a cow and her books are very interesting and instructive in seperating how an animal really thinks from how we think they think.

The movie Temple Grandin is really good and is about her autism and how she develops a humane way to slaughter cattle. She is actually speaking at a beef expo out west and I wish it was closer because I would go listen to her talk.



GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK CATNEWSPAPERMAN!

Cool man I didn't know she had made a film, I only know her from her books The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow and How to Make Animals Happy. She does talk about her work with cattle in them and chickens too, working for McDonalds to humanise their process.

I actually found her stuff really fascninating and will definitely try and track that movie down!