Here's one for your cat group -
Remember how Miss Tilly has to have a taste of the milk left in my cereal
bowl? (She gets less than 1/2 teaspoon).  Well, the other day she was
impatient for me to finish, so she got up on my knee with two feet on the
table, one on my knee and the other firmly planted on the inside of my arm
just below my wrist.
Believe me, I couldn't have moved that arm if I'd wanted to.  Then she took
her time having her milk.  I think she was sending me a message, that if I
was going to take my time then so was she.  (She is supervising this
message. She's sitting on the arm of my chair watching the cursor run across
the page.  Actually, I think she's asleep.)
What would we do without them?