A strange new tomcat had come to live in the district, and all the she-cats were wondering what he was like for romance.
One day, one of the she-cats said: 'Well, I'm going to take a chance.' And she hopped over a wall to see the new fellow.
She was gone some time, and when she came back, the others said: 'What's he like?'
She said: 'He's a dead loss... It took him half an hour to tell me about his operation.'
"Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr ...
A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is reinforcement of something we would all like to believe about ourselves - that we are nice."
Roger A Caras