feline instincts Quotes

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

A cat will blink when struck with a hammer.

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people

As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at meal times is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people's shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going, indicates great firmness.