Let Me At 'Em!

Barley, a dog, pulls hard on her leash to try to get to a cat, who views her with appropriate skepticism.

Barley, a dog, pulls hard on her leash to try to get to a cat, who views her with appropriate skepticism.

I happened to have my phone out anyway when we crossed paths with this cat, allowing me to catch this candid moment of Barley expressing her unsavory level of interest in cats. Normally, these pass so quickly as to be unphotographable, and it wouldn’t be responsible of me to stage such an encounter. I need to be entirely clear: She does not want to be friends. She’s looking to wreck shop. For this reason, I keep Barley well away from cats at all times, and hustled her along to the walk we were taking as soon as I got this one snap of the encounter.