They can be loving creatures indeed and forgiving too. My aunt had a cat once and she loved her very much. This was a very smart cat. It had learned how to open doors around the house and even the oven. You'd find her crawled inside sometimes a while after a meal is cooked especially during the winter months, when it got very cold.

Once my aunt had come home with her walking cane and a mouse ran through the room. She got startled and tried to hit the mouse with her cane, but instead hit her cat which had jumped out of nowhere chasing the mouse.

After the accident the poor thing lost its left eye. However it survived and lived some 13 years in the end-quite a long life for a cat. It never seemed to seek vengeance or hold a grudge against her owner, actually nothing changed after this unfortunate accident.