Cats have an intrinsic unknowableness – what’s so intensely fascinating about that blank wall? If you like being petted, why bite me? – whereas dogs are knowable to the point where it’s a little embarrassing.
Ascribing thoughts and motives to cats is a meditation on otherness, celebrating the fact that there are purposes other than our own which we cannot “get” but must accept for what they are. Dogs’ only motive is to please, and they think what you tell them, so putting words in their mouths is an exercise in epistemological thumb-sucking. Of course the zeitgeist that would elect Turmp prefers doggos to lolcatz.
