No, you cannot force your pet to support gay pride

It's Gay Pride week here in the Big Apple, which is basically an enormous outdoor party that gives anyone in the LGBT club free reign to act a fool in public while wearing 60% less clothing than usual.  I happen to live in Chelsea, the epicenter of these shenanigans, which year after year forces me to either stay in my apartment all day or take the chance of over stimulation by rainbow-colored things accosting my eyes. With the passing of the same-sex marriage law this week in NY the party grew to immense proportions, causing every Tom, Dick, and Harry (or is it Harry Ann?)  to come out in support. 

While walking in the West Village from brunch the day before the parade extravaganza, my friends and I noticed a small group of people stopped in the middle of the sidewalk staring into an apartment window.  Sitting in the window was a white cat straight out of a Fancy Feast commercial wearing a gay pride-inspired jester collar, complete with tiny bells, around her neck.  She was staring at the passerby's with a look of utter disdain, sitting so still I would have thought it was a statue if not for the assumption  that nobody would actually buy such a ridiculous window ornament.  Personally, I'm not a big fan of cats but after surveying the annoyance being fired out of every pore of this miserable animal's body I actually felt a little bad for her.  It's one thing if you want to support gay pride week by donning rainbow apparel and belting the YMCA at the top of your lungs, but it's a whole other ball game if you get your helpless animal involved who has no formidable opinion  on the matter.  Unless you've seen your cat batting for the other team with the neighbor's feline out in the alley, I think it's best to leave her out of it.