"I know there is much we can learn from each other, if we can negotiate a truce."

Barley, a dog, sits on one side of a glass door, scrutinizing a black cat facing it on the other side.

Over the years, I’ve seen signs like these available for sale in novelty shops countless times, so it’s self-evident that some market exists for them. Nevertheless, I’m always mildly shocked to see them in the wild, visible from the street no less. For the home owner who aspires to the rhetoric of Happy Bunny without any irony, whose only embrace of edge comes in the form of a counter-space-devouring $2k knife block that includes only three knives that they know how to use.