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I've just helped towards a Kitty's expensive dental bill. I was happy to do it, because I'm an Ailurophile. The word is relatively modern (1914) and comes from Ancient Greekย แผ€แฝทฮปฮฟฯ…ฯฮฟฯ‚ "ailouros" = cat, which is thought to originally mean something like "wavy tail", rather poetic to my mind. A somewhat earlier term for a cat lover was Philofelist, dating from 1843.

A dog lover is a Cynophilist, orย Cynophile, from Greekย ฮบฯ…ฮฝฮฟฯ‚ "kynos" = dog, from Proto-Indo-European kwon, which is also the root of words such as hound, kennel, and canine.

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