Yes. The cat only because she wants to, the horse because it thinks it is its duty. The horse isn't maternal, mind you. It doesn't respond to a "need", it responds to abstract concepts as in "it is quite reasonable to have sex x-times per week". Its also an exquisitely polite animal, and you'd have a hard time telling it apart from the cat in a lazy mood. Nor is it resentful. It doesn't analyze much.
Men enjoy the cat, but relate better to the horse. The horse is what keeps the house clean and the kids dressed and dinner on the table, and whatever else it needs to do. Its a fairly masculine animal, come to think of it. It pulls its load because it's there. It doens't need to emotionally connect to the load, or ask what it "means" to pull it, or whether the load appreciates being pulled, or obssess in any way about anything other than that its theirs and they are going to move it. A lot of men operate like that. In my experience.
The cat is feminine, feral, and prefers to stare hypnotically into space 23 hours/die, right up to that one perfect jump that takes down the mouse. *g* She likes sparkly, beautiful things and things that dangle so she can swat at them. She functions both as monkey and as tigress in your zoo, but is less openly aggressive and less innocently playful. She knows just how to drape herself over a couch for maximum effect, and will purr if petted, if in the right mood. She also might scratch. She's mainly ornamental outside of the sexual arena, but emits such an air of contentment simply "being" that people are willing to keep her around anyways. LOL.
Out of necessity, the horse gets most of the quotidian and the cat the bedroom, although she sometimes pouts that she's not let out more often. In a strange way she's probably my higher-functioning self. *muses*
