Felinophobia

And there is felinophobia, or fear of cats. About a year ago, Rockwell Sayre, wealthy Chicago realtor, left most of his fortune for the extermination of these animals, for which he had maintained a lifelong aversion.

Shakespeare was afraid of cats. This fear, felinophobia, is shared by hundreds of persons and by the Dowager Queen Mary of England.

At Oakland California, three cats have inherited stock valued at $25,000—thus providing the public with yet another silly example of felinophobia!

It’s so much easier to condescend to him, to make up stories about his Puritanism, his felinophobia, his general scariness.