Cats are also wild, free and careless.
And above all, they don't take no orders from nobody!
They don't run in packs, they do their own thing
A purrfect Orlanthi companion, I'd say!
One of Yelm's [many] faults may, indeed, have been to mistake Orlanth for a dog:
"Sit, Orlanth!"
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Henrix
who shares his life, and apartment, with a cat, needless to say ;-)