ailurophile

I do not quite understand ailurophobia, but then I am an ailurophile.

Because Armani is an ailurophile, the floor is covered with a rug woven with a cat's face in one corner.

His production of Carol Connors and Her Cats, launched a longstanding collaboration with Connors, a passionate ailurophile (cat lover), Elvis Presley's former girlfriend, and a twice-Oscar-nominated songwriter.

I will cheerfully admit that I didn't know what an ailurophile was - although as I sit here at home (snowed in, what a tragedy), cat upon my knee, I feel that perhaps I should have done.