Many humans exercise a ridiculous notion that they own cats.
While pitiful mortals spend their days laboring to procure shelter and food for the beings that they are so foolish as to consider their property, the Zen creatures bask in the sun, eat free meals, enjoy the benefits of indoor plumbing and frequently leave carcasses of large rodents to rot in front of their pet humans' doors. When the humans return, the Zen creatures rub their gentle Zenhood all over their hassled worker-bee bodies and give them their day's religious experience. Humans and cats enjoy a healthy division of labor, based on their respective merits and abilities. Humans are cooks, butlers, janitors, plumbers and menial workers. Cats are priestry, royalty, intelligentsia and entertainment industry.