Ceiling Cat is in my book

I'm reading The Truth of Valor, the latest book in Tanya Huff's Torrin Kerr series and the one that dares to ask the question "What do Space Marines do after the Very Big War is over?" and answer it with "Go after the Space Pirates!" While reading the previous book in the series, I suspected that the catlike appearance and endearingly (or annoyingly, I suppose-- there's no accounting for taste) garbled syntax of the Katrien might be a shout-out to cat macro lovers. Now I'm sure of it. This book has a Katrien character named Ceelin. I think the only appropriate response is LOL!

Also, I have to change the name of a species in one of my own stories because I've been calling them Katrien for years. They're not small or catlike, though. They are more like human-sized arthropods. They'd probably like the Confederation Katrien, though. My human-sized arthropods love cute things, which is why they keep getting up dubious schemes to buy/steal/kidnap "pets," and they too scoff at the sentence structure of languages originating with other species.