The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo da Vinci

In praise of cats
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

A street cat sits next to a bronze statue of cats along the Singapore river, April 2006. A cat played with drivers' nerves when it caused the closure of a five-kilometre motorway tunnel in the western Austrian province of Tirol twice in just one day.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)

Bablu, a one-month-old jungle cat sits on the hands of a veterinary doctor at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. Bablu is being raised at the zoo after it was rejected by its mother. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A veterinary doctor feeds Bulu, a three-month-old leopard at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. Bulu is being raised at the zoo after it was rejected by its mother. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Mini roar: An Indian veterinary doctor holds Bablu, a one month old jungle cat (L) and Bulu, a three week old leopard cub (R) at The Assam state Zoological Park in Guwahati. (AFP/Stringer )

Beware of people who dislike cats. - Irish proverb

After dark all cats are leopards. - Native American Proverb

The cat was created when the lion sneezed. - Arabian Proverb