Why does the narrator come to hate his cats so much? Support you answer with evidence from the text.

The
narrator's hatred for his black cat comes
about over a period of time.  At first, the cat was
the narrator's "favorite
pet and playmate" for several years, but that began to change
one night when
the narrator came home intoxicated and believed that the cat was avoiding
him;
angry that his beloved pet would shun his company,
the...