During Pope Gregory IX’s term, he declared that cats were associated with devil worship, resulting in their mass extermination.
Ironically, it is believed that this large-scale expunging of felines helped to spread the Bubonic Plague, which ravaged Europe in the 1300s and killed over a hundred million people. No cats meant the rat population (which carried the plague) ran wild.
I think that was all according to the cats plan, don't underestimate them, it was probably for the bigger picture, they are literal spawns of devils I tell ya /s reply
