For all the feline parents, it is Hug Your Cat Day on June 4. This day is marked annually to show love toward your feline babies. On this day, shower some extra care and love to your cats, share their images on social media, and pamper them with tasty treats.

Cats were first domesticated as early as 7500 BC and, by 500 BC, they became very popular. There are over 500 million pet cats across the globe.

Here are some quotes about felines, collected from Goodreads and BrainyQuote, to share with all cat lovers today:

1. “What greater gift than the love of a cat?” — Charles Dickens

2. “Time spent with a cat is never wasted.” — Colette

3. “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” — Ernest Hemingway

4. "Cats do care. For example, they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off." — Michael Nelson

5. "You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense." — Jane Pauley

6. "In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this." — Terry Pratchett

7. "I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are too good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human." — L.M. Montgomery

8. "Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time." — Seanan McGuire

9. "My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance." — William S. Burroughs

10. "Cats are anthropomorphized in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them." — Jim Davis

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Representation. A cat. Pixabay
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