Alley cats Quote by Eve Merriam
“It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.”
![“The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the…” quote by Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d58/konrad-lorenz-8538_appeals_the-appeal-of-the-cat-lies-in-the-very-f_901013.jpg)
