One interesting thing I’ve noticed about the barn cats now living with us that have been driven inside by the endless winter is that they look the same when they are about to commit mayhem and torture on a mouse or mole as they do when they seem to be showing affection and love. It’s the same look, and it reflects the interesting line cats walk between savagery and the wild and domesticity and sun worshiping. If you have a cat, you will have to often wonder what they are thinking, as they have very few expressions and many of them seem to mean the same thing.