Animals

Shall I tell you? I do not like animals very much. They can draw from my inspiration some interesting pictures with their expressionless head, their far away looking eyes (except dogs sometimes), but all of this is not very consequential.
I admit there are domestic animals that can eventually be friendly fellows, more than many others. As this gutter-cat, presently passed away, for which my children and my wife expressed a kind of love formerly. Me too (a little), influenced by my family.
Finally, our "inferior brothers" stay as incomprehensible as a computer because of their unexpected attitudes. Moreover, as regards animals, because of sometimes their disappointing aggressivity. Effectively I have never seen a computer getting the same bad temper.
In short ones and others - animals and computing equipments - are really extraterrestrial beings. I mean they have a common characteristic : they have difficulties to be understood. Besides we can have the feeling they have begun to mix when we hear terms like "mouse" or "chat" (cat in French) whereas people speak about data processing !
(copyright Jean-Michel Cagnon)