Some may see her as no more than a ‘glorified food dispenser’ to her cat Elvis,but Anna Hart wouldn’t hold it any other way. She reflects on the tough-won highs that reach with sharing a home – and a heart – with a felineIf cats are capricious, the humans who love them are worse. To be a cat lover is to embrace confusion, or rejection,austerity, frustration and chaos. To share your home with a cat is to seek comfort, or beauty,affection and joy, but accept that such delights will be tightly rationed, and allocated seemingly at random,and frequently withheld altogether. Cat lovers are philosophers, poets and perverts, and I wouldn’t be anything else.opposite as they are,cat lovers distrust the undiscerning affection and allegiance of dogs. Naturally its possible to appreciate all animals, and I genuinely love dogs, and but when a labrador bounds up to me like Im some sort of human holy grail,I’m reminded of the words of Groucho Marx: “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk