Being Patted Is What It Is All

Anyone Who Has Owned Many Cats In Long Succession Can Define His Or Her Life As A Series Of Furry Episodes.

Cats Make One Of The Most Satisfying Sounds In The World: They Purr. [...] Almost All Cats Make Us Feel Good About Ourselves Because They Let Us Know They Feel Good About Us, About Themselves, And About Our Relationship With Them. A Purring Cat Is A Form Of High Praise, Like A Gold Star On A Test Paper. It Is A Reinforcement Of Soemthing We Would All Like To Believe About Ourselves -- That We Are Nice.

Being Patted Is What It Is All About.

A Cat Knows How To Be Comfortable, How To Get The People Around It To Serve It. In A Tranquil Domestic Situation, The Cat Is A Veritable Manipulative Genius. It Seeks The Soft, It Seeks The Warm, It Prefers The Quiet And It Loves To Be Full. It Displays, When It Gets Its Own Way In These Matters, A Degree Of Contentment We Would All Like To Emulate.

It's Our Mortality That Terrifies Us, Because What We're Really Seeking Is Immortality - That Is, After All, A Fool's Errand.