What Cat People Are Like

"Cat people are happy, sensitive, gentle, gifted, reserved, ambitious, nice to be with, affectionate, and charming."
—Minnesota librarian Phuoc Thi-Minh Tran, who is organizing a Vietnamese New Year celebration this week, on the characteristics associated with people born in years, like 2011, designated as "cat years" in the 12-year-cycle of the Vietnamese calendar. So, people born in 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999. (The Vietnamese year of the cat corresponds to the Chinese year of the rabbit.) It makes you wonder whether Tran has ever even seen Cat People.