Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-36552279-20180814184417/@comment-9041013-20180815002446

First work on your english, and second, Cats aren't awful. They are just solitary creatures who are also predatory. They don't like company and they don't like change. With that being said, it's important to note that cat's aren't stupid nor they are full domesticated. A cat breed which has a wild's cat attributes (basically, not Persian or other cats with unique physiologies) would take about a month to go completely feral.

Cats don't hate you, they just don't love you as much as you think they do.

Cats are super useful and they are a prime example of a mutually benefitial symbiosis between species. We didn't domesticate cats, they just moved in with us. We had what they hunted all around us, and that's how it all started, from letting them in to kill the pest in our houses to eventually turning into a miniature tiger pet we own.

Why would you call a black cat, Nero? Because of the emperor I assume, cause you mentioned Alba, which is latin for "white". If you want to go with the cat mysticism and bad things happening, along with the cat being a reference to the mad emperor, Nero. How about a "flamboyant" cat that causes a bunch of minsfortunes (like causing accidents, scaring away a person from the narrators apartment etc) that end up with the cat "accidentally" causing a house fire?

Top it all of with the cat casually licking itself, all pleased with it's work as the house burns and the narrator narrowly escapes with their skin in their teeth.