Per Ian Anderson within the Heavy Horses 40th Anniversary Set: New Shoes Edition "this is a song about the hunting instincts of cats, and is a celebration in spite of the fact they\'re pretty vicious as killers of birds, snakes and other wildlife..." he writes of his young kitten Mistletoe who got credited on the album as a cat that would go hunting with him on his shoulder and acted like a gun-dog. There was a symbiotic relationship during their mutual hunts.
Per Ian Anderson within the Heavy Horses 40th Anniversary Set: New Shoes Edition "this is a song about the hunting instincts of cats, and is a celebration in spite of the fact they\'re pretty vicious as killers of birds, snakes and other wildlife..." he writes of his young kitten Mistletoe who got credited on the album as a cat that would go hunting with him on his shoulder and acted like a gun-dog. There was a symbiotic relationship during their mutual hunts.