A dog is to not be lonely, a cat is to be lonely and more refined

When you sit next to a cat you know very well, put your hand on it, and try to adjust yourself to its very different frequency of life, sometimes it will look up and use a different time All different soft noises greet you, that it knows you are trying to enter its life, it looks at you with eyes that are always changing with the light, and you lightly press it with your hand and greet you its sight. - Lessing, "The Special Cat"