Time Pussy by Isaac Asimov - Four-dimensional cats? Who ever heard of such a thing? Old Mac had seen these Time Pussies with his own eyes!
This was told me long ago by old Mac, who lived in a shack just over the hill from my old house. He had been a mining prospector out in the old asteroids during the Rush of '37, and spent most of his time now in feeding his 7 cats.
"What makes you like cats so much, Mr Mac?" I asked him.
The old miner looked at me and scratched his chin. "Well," he said, "they reminds me o' me beetle pets on Pallas. They was something like cats—same kind of head, sort o'—and the cleverest leetle fellers y' ever saw. All dead!"