Cats are very much a choosey type of species when it comes to humans. I stayed with my parents in 2006. They cleaned out my old room for me to stay. My parents' cat usually stayed on the bed whenever she could. Upon my first night there, the cat jumped up on the bed to disturb my near sleep. I rolled over to see what was what. The cat saw me. Got startled. Then jumped off the bed.
Two weeks later, I would be laying in bed. The cat jumped up, knowing that I was there. I would hear this "merrm... merrm" call of the cat. Then a paw would grab onto my left shoulder and pull me a bit her way. I would roll over to see what was what. The cat was trying to get my attention simply for her attention.
I never fed that cat once in the time my parents had her. Yet, she would reroute in my direction whenever she saw me. Worse so for my brother, since he lived there for a long time. And my sister was the cat's primary caregiver, until my sister had to move out of home, and then out of town.

Cats need you to know that they are reliant on you. But if they don't want to know you, they will let you know by ignoring you. Dogs will develop a rapport with new people as soon as they can.

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Our cats never let the neighbor's dog enter our garden.

Bobby. wrote on Jun 27^th, 2020 at 4:52pm:

I so enjoyed those 2 videos. Gosh the cat mob! 🤭😮

Never had any cats.  I don't have a bank of animal tales but there are a couple.

Our Australian Silky Terrier, Benji.

Every afternoon, TIB would take him for a walk.  We then lived in Crescent so to get out into the wild blue yonder meant she had to take him passed where the Malamute lived.

Malamute was kept inside safely, and they had a gate with those spaced vertical bars.

Whenever Benji arrived there, he'd go bananas, barking at the Malamute who largely ignored him initially.  But, the Terrier would just escalate, and that attracted closer attention from the Malamute each day.

Then, the day.

Benji goes nuts but makes the mistake of sticking his nose a tad too far through those vertical bars.  Malamute pounces, grabs nose, pulls him through the bars, and a schit fight is on. There can only be one winner.

TIB is hysterical, and cannot help.  Benji is fighting as best he uselessly could against the bigger pooch, who is all over him.

Then........The little schit breaks free and TIB is begging him to get out.

Dumb schit goes back for more and attacks Malamute again.

Malamute crushes his back-bone.

Vale Benji, you ballsy idiot!