Wow. You lucky people. You have others sufficiently in some way interested in you to try and control you. I don't think I've ever raised that degree of interest in anybody. Cats are different. They just want such basic things: food, water, potty, going in and out. You call that control? I don't think so. I don't think so at all. If anything, we control them. And they know it. They're little beggars. Of which they're rather ashamed, truth to tell. I think they'd rather be truly independant. But that's a really, really tough life, being an independant cat. So the poor bastards yield to their own weakness for the easy life and let us feed them and pet them and take care of them. I've known a lot of feral cats. HAD a lot of feral cats. Transformed them. And they ALL prefer the easy life of pets. It's hard outside there. Take care!