I'm seated at my desk, eating vegetarian chili, and my cat, Kobain, jumps up on my leg. like he always does when he wants in on what I'm eating. "You're not going to like this," I say to him, "putting a 1/4 of a teaspoon worth of chili on my leg for him. He swipes it off my paw, and starts to eat the chili off the floor, What he leaves behind, Morisson, my dog, finishes off for him. We are a commune around here.