Cat

A Cat (lat: felis catus) is a feline predator domesticated by homo sapiens.

Stats

• Wikidata:Q146

Background

21st century humans often domesticate cats due to their self-sufficiency and neonatal features of big eyes and high-pitched cries, especially in young cats. Cats are often seen as pleasant pets to own due toe the pleasant feel of their warm and furry bodies. However, cat owners who take responsibility for cat ownership are expected to not only feed and house them but to also clean up their excrement and find temporary replacement minders when they wish to take a break from cat ownership to seek more solo pursuits.

Quotes

• From Thief of Time, Susan and Lobsang encounter a display of taxidermied animals, including some kittens:

The next gallery was full of stuffed animals. There’d been a vogue for it, a few centuries before. These weren’t the sad old hunting-trophy bears or geriatric tigers whose claws had faced a man armed with nothing more than five crossbows, twenty loaders, and a hundred beaters. Some of these animals were arranged in groups. Quite small groups, of quite small animals.

There were frogs, seated around a tiny dining table. There were dogs, dressed in hunting jackets, in pursuit of a fox wearing a cap with feathers in it. There was a monkey, playing a banjo.

“Oh, no, it’s an entire band,” said Susan in tones of horrified astonishment.

“And just look at the little kittens dancing . . .”

“Horrible!”

“I wonder what happened when the man who did this met my grandfather . . .”

“Would he have met your grandfather?”

“Oh yes,” said Susan. “Oh, yes. And my grandfather is rather fond of cats.”

See also

• Wikipedia:Cat

External links

• bk4, reboil.com