Catophile

Nobody can love Dickens and Thackeray equally well. The catophile will inevitably choose Thackeray, and prefer Baudelaire to either. On a le sens de chat, ou on ne l'a pas.

Once someone becomes a confirmed catophile, he can rarely resist the pleasure of owning a cat again.

Wycliffe, an incurable catophile, stooped to stroke the cat but Kemp stopped him.