Felophile

Sir,—In case no more experienced felophile answers Mr Blakiston’s delightful letter in your issue of last Friday, I write to say that my cat reacts with similar abandon to the gift of an olive.

Feline pesematology (from the Greek pesema, for “fall”), the science of falling cats, may not strike you initially as the stuff for which Nobel Prizes are won. But it is undoubtedly of emotional importance, as any concerned felophile (cat lover) knows.

Moreover, he will welcome the attentions of your cats. I have not dared to say before, but I am not a felophile.

In fact, Father turned into a felophile, or whatever is the term for a cat-doter.

If instead you measure brain mass as a percentage of body mass, cats win by a whisker. / Felophiles should not gloat yet.