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Whenever I feel like I miss my pet cat Oreo (who's probably napping on my parents' bed right now), I watch this video. It's an old one but it always produces the same response - a good cry, followed by a lot of guilt*, followed by a relentless search for Fry to give him a very long hug.

I sometimes think that creatives cheap out by invoking pet-focused feelings in their audience, but in cases like this I think it's okay. That's mostly because it's so well-produced. Besides that, it's fine to feel something sometimes, isn't it?

Last Minutes with ODEN from Eliot Rausch on Vimeo.

*We used to have two cats: Oreo and Tiger. One night in the summer after first year, I came home at around 11 pm. Tiger was sitting in front of the screen door leading to our backyard. I still don't know why I did this, but I slid open that screen door and she ran out. We couldn't find her, partially because it was dark and partially because, like most cats, she's a fast runner. It was two days later that we found out that the Humane Society took her in. A neighbour accidentally moved their car with her beneath it. She had a broken hip and, after speaking to my family, she was put down. It's weird when I think that I was the last person in my family to stand beside her.