He hated that they always said “one step at a time” as if it was possible to take two steps at a time. Maybe when we were quadrupeds, he thought, but it cannot work for mere bipeds. That is why he believed birds were the most lucky species, with cats a close second. The freedom of flight was something humans only imagined for centuries, bound to the earth. And cats, well they had a way of bending people to their will that humans all too often seemed to lack.