"Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance."
It is that very tenacity and courage born with them that makes them all the more loveable, and that anyone would hurt them rather than admire their fericious link to life all the harder to understand.