The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
The cat is a dilettante in fur.