Cat in heat, dog in heat, people in love

It is easy to find out if your cat or dog is in heat. Are they different? Are they similar? Do they have the same symptoms? Let's find out together.

 Ø They both become more affectionate, searching for more attention

Ø  The cat yowls desperately, the dog barks and growls despairingly.

Ø Cats urinate all over the house and constantly lick their vaginal area, while dogs tuck their tails and bleed from the vaginal area.

Ø Both of them lose appetite.

It is funny how sometimes people who are in love also lose their appetite. They also search for more attention, they are distracted and sometimes speak to much.

If there are so many similarities between cats and dogs in heat, women's and men's arousal and between people's and animals's sexual behavior, why can't the expressions 'in heat' and 'in love' be used interchangeably?

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping.

Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.”

Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings