It can charge so much because, while we may be smart enough to monkey with their genes, cats are expert at manipulating human brains.
Our family didn't wind up getting a cat. I'm highly allergic to the creatures, so we took in a couple of leopard geckos whose owner was heading off to college. But a few months ago we became a cat household anyway, against our will and better judgment.
Our neighborhood has lots of cats, many of whom do not feel bound to one particular house - A gray cat we'd not seen before showed up one and meowed outside our door. She looked a little scraggly and said. She has an extraordinarily expressive face, so I could tell she was going through hard times.
She's awfully cute too. We didn't know which house she belonged to, and after a couple of days I began to think may be she was abandoned or lost. So when she asked for food, I gave it to her. That was a mistake, but she was looking me right in the eye and pleading for help.
From then on, when we opened the door to get the papers in the morning she was there asking to be let in. When we sat down to meals, she came to the window and asked, what about me?
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