Through her brilliant use of personification, she propels the sudience into an abstract world in which the lessons to be learned are taught by animals. They'll discover the prejudice and arrogance they thought belonged to someone else are festering inside their own minds. But, so festers freedom. And the world of possibilites. I don't know.
People torment the cats all the time.
I don't know why they do it. I guess they think it's fun to see them get angry.