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Ravioli redux
Apr. 21st, 2024 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelThis time Carolyn Hax
Dear Carolyn: My roommate, “Sara,” my cat, “Ravioli,” and I have all lived together for 2½ years without any issues. But Sara’s boyfriend of six months, “Tom,” is being a jerk to my cat, and I’m sick of it.
( letter mostly as before )
Holy Ravioli: By my count, Ravioli is the second guardian-angel cat to appear in this column . That is, if Sara will let him be.
Anyone who watches too much TV knows animal cruelty turns up early in serial-killer stories, foreshadowing an excess of hostility and deficit in empathy.
But when the cruelty is on the way-less-extreme part of the scale — dousing a cat, say — I don’t think the connection comes as readily to mind.
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Dear Carolyn: My roommate, “Sara,” my cat, “Ravioli,” and I have all lived together for 2½ years without any issues. But Sara’s boyfriend of six months, “Tom,” is being a jerk to my cat, and I’m sick of it.
( letter mostly as before )
Holy Ravioli: By my count, Ravioli is the second guardian-angel cat to appear in this column . That is, if Sara will let him be.
Anyone who watches too much TV knows animal cruelty turns up early in serial-killer stories, foreshadowing an excess of hostility and deficit in empathy.
But when the cruelty is on the way-less-extreme part of the scale — dousing a cat, say — I don’t think the connection comes as readily to mind.
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