They are, for both the one scritching and the one getting scritched. There is well-documented evidence that scritching a cat is a good luck gesture. Also, happy cats avert doom and woe. It is a well-tested law of the universe.

Or a well-tested law of the end of the universe. It could just be Milli-centric. You never know.


The very white cat gazes at Miniver, contentedly, and blinks very slowly.



A staring contest may develop.