I just discovered this! What an awesome story!

This was amazing! Never in a million years did I think I would be reading something like this! It was awesome and I laughed.

I really wasn't sure about this but I'm so glad I kept reading after the first chapter. I actually ended up more disturbed than amused, but that's good. Sure it was sort of demented, but it sort of made sense. The capacity of society to convince itself that something absolutely disgusting (Let's say slavery) is totally okay has been proven horrifyingly impressive. So that's what your story made me think about. Plus, it certainly makes a nice change from the usual redundant plots.

i love it. stupid cat story or not its awesome. and i totally love the end notes where its all bout love dudette.

"with a little luck I made the following points: we need to treat each other better, compassion is heroic, and love wins."

Epic. i 100% agree with that statement.

omg. ok so normally i wait til last chap on completed stories to comment but i had to share this, when Ruiz said that my head went straight to Neal sitting beside Elizabeth with a collar on and a leash handle in her hand with Peter next to her otherside and i cracked up! this is way better. i cant stop giggling!

I just got into White Collar and now it's a weekly marathon with one of my coworkers who is also my best friend. I swear the first time we saw Neal practically preening with his new duds (and that hat! love that hat!) we said he was a cat. The guy is always impeccably dressed and no matter what they put him through on the show he lands on his feet and doesn't get a speck of dirt on him. So yeah: Neal is a cat. :)
Loved your story and I am so going to be sharing it with people.

I read your story since I love your humor. It was not demented bullshit but regrettably I can see that happening. So many do not like free people and wiping minds of convicts is a logical extension. Really I took your story more seriously and it was with horror. It is not a satire in my opinion.

The story is excellent, the topic horrifying.

Awesome story! I really enjoyed it :)

Hi, I just found this jem last night and read it top to bottom. Hilarious! And, in a weird way, made sense :D I love how innocent and unaware cat Neal is, I'm sort of sad he had to go back to normal, but of course it would have been selfish to keep their pet cat (especially with the life shortening drug regime!). Great Job! Having cats myself this was especially cute.

It was a nice and very interesting story. I enjoyed it a lot!

It was sometimes hard to see Neal as a house cat but it was very funny and I like the moral. Thanks a lot for sharing it :)

At the beginning I couldn't figure out if I found your fic disturbingly cute or cutely disturbing. I finally ended up with highly entertaining and even though it took me some time to figure out what was going on I found myself compelled to read on. And it was well worth it.

It is such a different view into an interesting new verse and I really enjoyed first seeing this "different side" of Neal and also his way back. And of course I loved the fluff :)

Definitely great job with the fic.

Oh boy... I'm so sad to hear you are leaving fanfiction!

I just found this fic... and it was so amazing I couldn't even call it crack.

Whyyy? whyyyyyy

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First off, I'm sorry about the typo. I tend to scramble my letters and if it weren't for spell checkers no one would be able to understand my writing at all. Embarrassingly enough I had to read the first part of your answer three times before I got the last line.

After reading the rest of your story I think maybe that was what I meant to say after all. In a good way.

And yeah, even though I am the comedian of my family and I tend to get the jokes that no one else does, I am the kind of person that will go up to the person telling the joke and spend five minutes have it explained to me if I don't get it. I hate not getting the joke.

There were definitely parts of the story that made me laugh (like Fowler and Neal fighting. How did Neal know he was supposed to be a bird anyway?), but mostly it really got me thinking.

For awhile I thought perhaps you were advocating animal rights but that didn't seem quite right. I think I got the point; treating people like people IS VERY important. And not nearly common enough.

Just so I say, I do not believe in animal rights, not the way most people mean when they say that. I not believe in abusing animals, they should always have a clean living environment and the food, water and shelter particular to that species, but I do believe in eating animals.

I have owned many different animals: fish, turtles, birds, a large assortment of bugs (all very short lived, thanks Mom), and dogs. I have also helped care for, feed and clean up after, goats, chickens, cows, snakes, cats and mice. So, I do have experience in what I'm talking about.

What really struck me as different (and defiant!;]) was that I've read stories like this. Not like this in terms of meaning, but like this in that, they have people mistreated or dehumanized.

This is the first one that went into What and Why and How and looked at the effects on a large, rather than a personal, scale. This is also the first story that had any sort of large scale solution.

Another thing I found interesting about this was that you dealt with the problem of, these 'peets' are messed with people and before they went to jail they had lives. Also the thing of how their new owners might react to that. I did have some difficulty with the idea that people could just accept, essentially not just enslaving people, but also taking their minds.

But, you know, it's amazing what people will accept on the grounds that a) it has been accepted by popular society and b)'it's better than what we were doing ten years ago' when fifty years ago what they are doing now would have been thoroughly denounced.

I also wanted to say thank you for including the fact that there are doctors out there who are fired for doing the morally right thing regardless of the 'politically correct' response.

The part with Neal waking up and getting his head straight was interesting. I thought the little segment with Satchmo's thoughts was interesting. It does add to the story but it seems a bit odd as it is the only such segment in the entire thing. I didn't notice any other parts where Satchmo is the main character like this. He gets referred too but not like this, is there a particular reason for that?

The whole thing with Neal getting his memory back and getting his head on straight is very sweet and I almost cried in several places. Personally I don't think Peter and Elizabeth would have reconciled thinking of Neal as a man rather than as a pet that fast but, well that isn't really a set thing. People can change their minds very fast.

I think Mozzie should have promised to tell Neal when he was better and kept that promise. But then Neal would have worried and that might have made him sicker. There isn't an instruction manual for that sort of thing, and there's no real 'right way' to do it.

I don't know about that thing with the pictures though. (btw I cracked up over the line '"Oh man, these are priceless," Mozzie said, interrupting his thoughts. "Wanna burn 'em?"' the idea of Mozzie wanting to burn something priceless just struck me as bizarre.) I think I would be totally weirded out and embarrassed by any reminder if I went through something like that but then there is the thing that he doesn't really remember it and what he does remember is good.

I LOVED the thing about Neal shouting that he'd lost his boa! Congratulations on making Neal feel very much like himself at the end. I didn't think you could pull it off but he was very much in character.

After reading it, I am inclined to think that 'your cat story is demented' however, I do not think it is stupid and I do not think it is bullshit. It is a very interesting story that provoked thought, laughter, happiness and sadness in me, as well as hope. This story is going to affect the way that I think and write for sometime, possibly the rest of my life.

So, thank you for writing it. If nothing else it proves to me that it is possible to write something about important subject matter that doesn't sound like an essay or a lecture. Thank you very much for sharing your literary talent! Sorry this is so long!

Kopy Kat

This story is defiantly different. It's not like any other story I've read on this site before. Oddly enough though, I don't find it funny at all. Interesting, thought provoking, yes.

I think at least part of the reason for that is, I spent the first half of the chapter thinking 'Well... this is bizarre.' Good job so far. I'm going to have to see what you do in the rest of the story with the issue of what makes humans, human, and separates us from animals.

Kopy Kat

Hahaha this story is insane:D But I like itxD

Linoria