Cat-Lovers

There are varying theories about whether cats really love their human caregivers or are merely attached to them as providers of food, water, love, affection, treats, and the like. As someone who never had a pet and acquired one later in life, I feel that cats who receive loving care get to be very attached to their owners and their owners to them. However, just as with human love, the word “love” gets tossed around in ways that are merely conceptual as it relates to cats. ...

 ~ Quotations from: “Cat Quotations” - a book in my own personal library. [caption id=“attachment_1474” align=“aligncenter” width=“584”] Cat with Japanese Maple in Red Fall Color[/caption] “There are other ties which cats put on our affections. We enjoy their intelligence and grace; and we feel a strange sense of companionship and consolation in their presence. But these are ideas we can understand by words. The reasons for their appeal to us can never be expressed too clearly.” (Lloyd Alexander) ...