I have studied many philosophers and many cats. Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but it would deteriorate the cat. One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats.
Cats know how to obtain food without labour, shelter without confinement and love without penalties. Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.