1904, Henry De Varigny, "Concerning Cats", Forest and Stream, 9 January 1904, page 24:
Thoth greatly enjoys a good piece of chocolate. He always comes back to ask for more, and gets it generally; though, of course, there is a limit. There must be one, somewhere, even for a catologue and catophile.
1915, Beatrice Kean Seymour, The Painted Lath, page 317:
Towards the middle of July she went down to the farm for a week, leaving Dinky to be looked after by Mrs. Black and a 'catophile' neighbour, and Bess with the devoted North, whom she had never forgotten, and to whom she paid occasional visits for 'ratting' purposes.
1922, "The Race of Tom", The Atlantic Monthly, September 1922, page 424:
Nobody can love Dickens and Thackeray equally well. The catophile will inevitably choose Thackeray, and prefer Baudelaire to either. On a le sens de chat, ou on ne l'a pas.
1969, The Cat Compendium (ed. Ann Currah), page 65:
Once someone becomes a confirmed catophile, he can rarely resist the pleasure of owning a cat again.
1988, "Kitten kaboodle" (advertisement), New York Magazine, 5 December 1988, page 265:
Custom Designed Gift Baskets for all the cats and catophiles on your Christmas List!
1996, W. J. Burley, Wycliffe and the House of Fear, page 28:
Wycliffe, an incurable catophile, stooped to stroke the cat but Kemp stopped him.
2005, Susie Green, Talk to Your Cat: How to Communicate with Your Pet, page 34:
Dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but based on an earlier tradition going back to at least the seventeenth century, these Treatises have been translated by Martin R. Clutterbuck, a Thai scholar and catophile.
2013, A. E. Hotchner, O. J. in the Morning, G & T at Night: Spirited Dispatches on Aging with Joie de Vivre, page 54:
You're either a cat person or you're not, and I was a confirmed non-catophile.
2016, R. Howard Bloch, One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern, unnumbered page:
Mallarmé, who was once categorized in an interview about cats as a “catophile,” suggested that Whistler paint the Mallarmé family's old black cat, Lilith.
