Jon Carroll thinks we should make our cats be more patriotic. He makes his point in a very amusing fashion, so I guess I can forgive him. Plus he claims it is better for our cats to at least appear patriotic since they look so darn suspicious all the time. But he knows as well as all of us that cats have loyalties only to themselves and, very seldom, their humans (sometimes the can opener too, but not often). Even if it were possible to train our cats to stand at attention while we recited the Pledge of Allegiance or shed little kitty tears while yowling accompaniment to Celine’s rendition of “God Bless America”, well, it just wouldn’t be the same. We’d be losing that which makes a cat … a cat. And isn’t that what liberty and freedom is all about?