re: #266 Decatur Deb

(Had to look it up.) Venice is very much a cat town—few dogs.
Vicenzans, however are called “magnagatti”, The Cat Eaters, because of a misunderstanding.

I’ve never understood the thing with cats and boats. Cat’s hate water, so why are there so many when there are ships and boats around. I know they eat the varments that are the bane of ships, but it seems awful nice that they’d (the cats) would hang around the water at all.