“No cat is safe. To say such a thing is an insult to cats.”
Exactly. Deep down every house cat knows it is distantly related to tigers and lions, and occasionally they will remind you of that fact.
My three are all very affectionate (especially our orange tabby, Apple) but I don’t doubt for a second they’d kill and eat me if they were big enough.
I even think they appreciate this tenuous relationship...though I think they are curious as to why we haven't eaten them. I think they are curious about our love for them and the strange emotion (love, though it is certainly more than an emotion) they feel for us.
As has been attributed to Hugo (and probably falsely attributed to Churchill)...
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.And in that vein, God gave cat those men who love him so that he (the cat) might feel the loving caress of God.