Earlier today, I thought, "Maybe I'm going about this all wrong. Maybe, if I want my cat to stop biting my feet, I should appeal to her humanity." Thus, to the tune of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," I sang, "Collette, Collette...We don't need to escalate. Biting's not the answer..."
It didn't work. Collette still bit my feet.
So much for diplomacy.