My black cat, Tesla, eats fish food and bird seed. My other cat, part bangle, named Formica Dinette Patrice Foxford, cries if John leaves without saying good bye. She walks though the house, her crying muffled by a stuffed twelve inch long green alligator. When she was a small kitten she muffed her cries with a FIVE foot long alligator that crocked like a frog as she drug it through the house. John’s mother made the funny thing to block the wind from coming in under our front door. Some how little Formica even got it up and down our very steep stairs. A twelve inch long kitty dragging a five foot long security pet! Wow!
In my books “Dragon’s Tale” and “Leafman Attacks” Paul and Anna each carry stuffed animals, Anna’s being a dragon, Paul’s is a homemade action man. In real life my son Paul carried a Podd doll everywhere he went. It was a character from one of his favorite books (Trouble For Trumpets by Peter Dallas-Smith and illustrated by Peter Cross).  I made several replacement Podds for Paul. Each about four inches tall with a tan person-shaped body, a fat tummy and a head similar to a hippo’s. Paul stored Podd in his pocket and it would fall into the toilet when he leaned forward to flush. I still have his last Podd and hang it on our Christmas trees. See my books at Amazon.
Often horses have dogs or cats as companions so I wonder, do one celled animals have smaller cell animals as security friends?   nancymauerman.com