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As Anyone Who Has Ever Been Around A Cat For Any Length Of Time Well Knows, Cats Have Enormous Patience With The Limitations Of The Human Mind. They Realize That, Whether They Like It Or Not, They Are Simply Going To Have To Put Up With What To Them Are Excruciatingly Slow Mental Processes, That We Humans Have Embarrassingly Low I.q.'s, And That Probably Because Of These Defects, We Have An Infuriating Inability To Understand, Let Alone Follow, Even The Simplist And Most Explicit Of Directions.

For An Animal Person, An Animal-less Home Is No Home At All.

Relations Between The Sexes Are So Complicated That The Only Way You Can Tell If Members Of The Set Are Going Together Is If They Are Married. Then, Almost Certainly, They Are Not.

It Suddenly Dawned On Me One Day, When I Was Reading In The Paper About A Woman Wrestler, That Being A Curmudgeon Was The Last Thing In The World That A Man Can Be That A Woman Cannot Be. Women Can Be Irritating -- After All, They Are Women -- But They Cannot Be Curmudgeons.

Giving The Cat A Name, Like Marriage, Is Not An Easy Thing. Soon I Experienced The Selection Of Name For A Baby, A Dog, A Book, A Warship, A Sports Team, Even The King, The Pope Or A Hurricane Is Just Child's Play Compared To The Selection Of The Cat's Name.