, an attempt of an explanation is sometimes we devolve to immaturity and do things that make us feel good, for example try to be right or be better than someone by trashing stuff about them unrelated to the discussion, but which nonetheless makes us feel better in comparison
It was a report first, silly message second, not the other way around
I take a noticeable modicum of issue with this erroneous message, because I pretty much never have a cat out. Whenever my kitten grows into a cat, I send it to the menagerie at my POH, and go to Gertrude for another kitten, then I visit Wendy to paint it purple.
I know that on the website for website & forum bugs, there's an option to report typos, and that on Patch notes, sometimes they mention fixing typos as well. As such, I figured Text > in-game was the best category for what I was trying to report.
In addition, interacting with your kitten is *mandatory* so that it doesn't run away from loneliness, and stroking it is the easiest way of doing so (as opposed to carrying a ball of wool with you), and is also fairly quick (no dialogue to go through when you try to talk to it, though I don't know if talking to it counts as giving it attention).
So for those who raise pet kittens, this message happens fairly often