In a matter of plain common sense, there ain't a cat living as couldn't take the lee side of a dog and fly round him.

Now, have you ever noticed a dog at the end of a chain, trying to kill a cat as is sitting washing her face three-quarters of an inch out of his reach?
Of course you have.

Well, who's got the sense out of those two?
The cat knows that it ain't in the nature of steel chains to stretch.

The dog, who ought, you'd think, to know a durned sight more about 'em than she does, is sure they will if you only bark loud enough.
"'Then again, have you ever been made mad by cats screeching in the night, and jumped out of bed and opened the window and yelled at them?
Did they ever budge an inch for that, though you shrieked loud enough to skeer the dead, and waved your arms about like a man in a play?
Not they.

They've turned and looked at you, that's all.