I enjoy Spiegelman's choice to draw animals instead of humans. As I said before in my last blog, it makes sense to draw the Jews as mice and the Germans as cats since cats chase and usually kill mice. I really didn't see the fact that the Poles were portrayed as mice a negative thing. It might be because I really like pigs and I don't think of them as a bad animal but I thought that Spiegelman just needed some sort of neutral animal and just happened to chose a pig. What I mean by a neutral animal is the fact that pigs don't usually go after mice but if they are really hungry they will eat just about anything even mice. This kind of describes the Poles because of how some of them were good and tried to help the Jews but others sided with the Nazis.
    I really think his drawings of the animals are great because they show so much emotion. The Nazi cats and some of the pigs looks so evil because of the way their mouths are drawn with their teeth showing. Even though all of the mice look pretty much the same you can tell if they're feeling sick or scared because of the way the eyes are drawn. You can see so much of what they're feeling just by looking at their faces. This would be a challenging thing to do especially when you are drawing mice but I think Spiegelman did a great job at it.