Citations:catophile

Noun: "(informal) one who is extremely fond of cats"

 * 1904, Henry De Varigny, "Concerning Cats", Forest and Stream, 9 January 1904, page 24:
 * Thoth greatly enjoys a good piece of chocolate. He always comes back to ask for more, and gets it generally; though, of course, there is a limit. There must be one, somewhere, even for a catologue and catophile.
 * 1915, Beatrice Kean Seymour, The Painted Lath, page 317:
 * Towards the middle of July she went down to the farm for a week, leaving Dinky to be looked after by Mrs. Black and a 'catophile' neighbour, and Bess with the devoted North, whom she had never forgotten, and to whom she paid occasional visits for 'ratting' purposes.
 * 1922, "The Race of Tom", The Atlantic Monthly, September 1922, page 424:
 * Nobody can love Dickens and Thackeray equally well. The catophile will inevitably choose Thackeray, and prefer Baudelaire to either. On a le sens de chat, ou on ne l'a pas.
 * 1969, The Cat Compendium (ed. Ann Currah), page 65:
 * Once someone becomes a confirmed catophile, he can rarely resist the pleasure of owning a cat again.
 * 1988, "Kitten kaboodle" (advertisement), New York Magazine, 5 December 1988, page 265:
 * Custom Designed Gift Baskets for all the cats and catophiles on your Christmas List!
 * 1996, W. J. Burley, Wycliffe and the House of Fear, page 28:
 * Wycliffe, an incurable catophile, stooped to stroke the cat but Kemp stopped him.
 * 2005, Susie Green, Talk to Your Cat: How to Communicate with Your Pet, page 34:
 * Dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but based on an earlier tradition going back to at least the seventeenth century, these Treatises have been translated by Martin R. Clutterbuck, a Thai scholar and catophile.
 * 2013, A. E. Hotchner, O. J. in the Morning, G & T at Night: Spirited Dispatches on Aging with Joie de Vivre, page 54:
 * You're either a cat person or you're not, and I was a confirmed non-catophile.
 * 2016, R. Howard Bloch, One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern, unnumbered page:
 * Mallarmé, who was once categorized in an interview about cats as a “catophile,” suggested that Whistler paint the Mallarmé family's old black cat, Lilith.