When you hug a kitty (and it does you the courtesy of not scratching your face off), you heart soars to new heights. Although you may not know it at the time, but that cat knows exactly what it's doing for you, exactly the cost of the services they are performing to boost your mental health. Naturally, cats being cats, they don't do anything for free, so they will come to collect at 3AM the next morning, attacking your ankles or meowing incessantly for a full bowl of food that they'll no sooner scoff at the second your slippers start shuffling across the kitchen floor. Although we may pay the price for cat love, we know for a fact that they secretly love the pets and the hugs, so we'll keep on perpetuating the cycle.
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