Quoted: Mary Ruefle on Cats and Kittens

I have noticed that when a cat has kittens, my friends give away the kittens and keep the cat. Which has always baffled me: in the same situation, I would give away the cat and keep the kittens. Which is more sentimental? A long-standing relationship with a cart, a relationship of nuance and memory, the language -- if you can call it that -- of shared experience, or my own attachment to something that is more like a symbol, the feeling I have when I hold a kitten that here is something that has acquired a PhD in cuteness?  -- Mary Ruefle from Madness, Rack, and Honey

I don't have anything to add other than to say this made me smile.