Too demanding and inflexible and high-strung. Many years later, I must admit she was right. It's a mind-broadening thing to see a prejudice turn to dust. It took me maybe a week to fall for them completely, and ever since, I have been regarded by people who know me as one of those people who always talks about his cats. I just can't help it.
Cats are endlessly fascinating creatures.
And they've given me such great stories to tell, though I sense my friends wanting to groan when I begin to tell them. So imagine my delight when I got the chance to share my cat stories with Dr. John Bradshaw of the University of Southampton in England, one of the world's preeminent researchers into the world of the cat. The first story I tell Dr. Bradshaw concerns my cat Gus, who tends to hold a grudge. He jumps again, and again I shoo him to the floor. But he doesn't let it go.