"There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person." ~ Dan Greenberg

Anthropomorphism is strongly associated with storytelling and with art, and suggests that we assign human characteristics to non-humans such as animals, plants, objects, etc.  Rosie and I see nothing wrong with this tendency, particularly when we consider that cats do have many human characteristics.

For example, Rosie is the supervisor-in-charge of the knitting/spinning/weaving and other fiber pursuits in this house.  She inspects every new acquisition of yarn, carefully checks out the contents of guests' knitting bags, stares up at me through the warp as I weave, and lays on the back of my chair when I knit.  And she does it all because...it's her job.

She does not eat yarn, or play with yarn, but she has been known to wrap a ball of handspun around the furnace, then the washer, then the dryer, before bringing it back to the living room and placing it artistically in the exact center of my knitting chair.  She will curl up in the middle of a just-carded spinning batt, then complain that there's silk on her tail.  She gets impatient (as do we all) when a shawl is taking too long to dry and pulls the T-pins out of the blocking board. 

She is my design consultant, my quality control expert, my muse and my constant companion, and so will be present for the telling of this story......................