The Character of Cats

'There are no search-and-rescue cats, guard cats, Seeing-Eye cats, bomb-detecting cats, drug-sniffing cats, escaped-convict-tracking cats, sheep cats, sled cats, Frisbee-catching cats, or slipper-fetching cats. This is a matter of considerable relief. No one has any illusions about cats. Cats are cats and any real cat owner knows it. That constant fraction of the human race that stalwartly admires and enjoys the company of cats long ago realized that they had better accept cats on their own terms, for cats would have it no other way.'