I will be reunited at my mother’s with new cat and lone dog next week. We will see.

I fully expect lone dog to slobber all over me, and then do the same to the next person he meets, and new cat to ignore me unless she wants warmth or food.

Senior cat actually did quite obviously love and prefer me—but cats like that are rare. And she was feral (I found her curled up in my car sleeping when I was packing up to leave college after graduation).