I have 8 cats, each one special. Only had one incident, one of them jumped onto my work bench, where I had stupidly left a newly covwered wing, and punched a hole through the covering. My fault. Anyway, I'm glad to see all the affection for cats, dogs, birds etc. as expressed in most of the posts. Cats and dogs are domesticated animals that need and deserve human contact/love/care. I figure that those that "hate" cats, or dogs or feel they "belong " in the barn, outside or whatever , fending for themselves, have a flaw in their make up. Don't even want to know them.