caninality, felinality, murality

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not the motto of the French Revolution.

This evening, on a PBS show about cats and dogs, a Humane Society volunteer
explained that they try to determine a dog's "caninality" before they match
it with an owner.

That means "personality," but for dogs.  I didn't hear "felinality," but
Google tells me it exists.

No "murality," AFAICT, for mice, but thousands of Raw Googlits in the sense
of "murals."


JL

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