Heinlein, Robert A. — The Door Into Summer
Belle “liked” my cat — oh, sure, sure! She adored cats and she loved my incipent bald spot and admired my choice in restaurants and she liked everything about me.
But liking cats is hard to fake to a cat person. There are cat people and there are others, more than a majority probably, who “cannot abide a harmless, necessary cat.” If they try to pretend, out of politeness or any reason, it shows, because they don’t understand how to treat cats — and cat protocol is more rigid that that of diplomacy.
