Note that "cats" is a four-letter word.

The same cat that couldn't seem to go more than a couple of hours without attention last night, even when people were sleeping, just reappeared after an apparent absence of something like seven hours. This is a cat that takes care to sleep in the middle of much-traveled paths, you have to understand, a cat whose voice can fill the house and often does; occasionally it is possible to overlook his presence, but only ever for long enough to trip over him. I was starting to think he'd managed to get outside and freeze.

I'm glad he didn't freeze.