Vampires - Animal Relations

Vampires were friendly with rats and bats. We couldn’t turn into them, as some books and films said, but they liked us — they knew from the smell of our blood that we were different from humans — and often cuddled up to us while we were sleeping, or came around looking for scraps of food.

Dogs and cats, for some reason, hated us.

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Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Chapter 3