What IS A Cat?

"Cat: 

a. A carnivorous mammal (Felis catus) long domesticated as a pet and for catching rats and mice .

b . Any of a family (Felidae) of carnivorous usually solitary and nocturnal mammals (as the domestic cat, lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, cougar, wildcat, lynx, and cheetah)."

That's it?! Presley licked his taupe nose with his pink tongue, the roughness analogous to his mood. What about 'royalty'? What about 'king of all he surveys' (that was how he got his name, after all!)? What about 'god of the world, humans hear me roar'?!

He started bathing himself, his tongue picking off extra tufts of white fur, to later be belched up in a ball. 'Mammal? MAMMAL'?! I am no mere mammal! I am the he above all else, bow before me! Presley growled to himself, discontent with the severely-lacking "definition" of 'cat' that he'd seen in his human's book. We felines are as good as it gets! We are what all other animals, mammal and otherwise, aspire to be! We, the cats of the world, are the apex of existence! He sniffed haughtily. 'Mammal', indeed!

And with that, the apex of existence tiredly laid down for his afternoon cat nap, the better to dream of catching rats and mice.