A comparison of attachment levels of adopters of cats — fee based adoptions vs. free adoptions. (aspca.org)
Daydreaming about a shared future - especially if you do it with your partner - is a way of strengthening pair bonds, increasing attachment levels, and telling these biological drives to rest easy: this relationship is going to go the distance.8 (elitesingles.com)
However, it's unlikely that this will dismay cat owners (or indeed, be of any surprise) and the paper notes that although «dogs are perceived by their owners as being more affectionate than cats -LSB-...] dog owners and cat owners do not differ significantly in their reported attachment level to their pets». (petsmagazine.com.sg)