Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Thinking that ships are dangerous environments and they have cats, so SPACEships could have cats, right?
Or would their inherent cat-ness lead to destruction of something life critical on a Spaceship that you wouldn't get on a ship of the Sea?
Perrin42See "Cats in Space and Other Places":
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/736080.Cats_in_Space_and_Other_Places
In one story, the crew would have died if they did not have a cat on board.