Stella . . .

Good morning Stella . . . you wild eyed, lovable, mischievous, crazy, bothersome, don't know what we would do without you cat.  

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.” 
~ Mark Twain

“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”   

~ Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

“There are no ordinary cats.”  

~ Colette