>>116190971Absolutely this, I never understood his motive as a kid when I saw this.
Cats only live like twenty years maybe, and that's in modern today times, Aristocats was set in 1910.
Put down a couple dishes of food twice a day, use the rest of the money left for them to live it up.
It's basically like you've had a family of cats surrendered to you, and they come with a dowry as a bonus.