The New Yorker magazine did a special issue on animals, a compilation over the decades, including this amusing casual interview with the famous dog-novelist Terhune from the 1930s.
Defence of Cats
Are felines lazy, disloyal opportunists with nothing to recommend them but a low mechanical cunning? Ask Dillinger, a cat who thinks she’s Gloria Swanson.
By Wolcott Gibbs
The New Yorker, April 20, 1934
Mr. Terhune summed up his whole opinion of cats by calling them lazy, disloyal opportunists, with nothing to recommend them except a low mechanical cunning.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/1934/04/28/defence-of-cats