As we all learned in school science class, cats are much like balloons, every time you stroke them they accumulate electric charge.
Serious wizards use this fact to destroy their enemies by first wearing an insulated rubber suit, and then handing them an extremely well stroked cat.
It is whispered that in the basement at LANL Sandia there is an experimental parallel machine with nine million heavily purring cats, wired to a balloon lofted antenna that points a whisker of doom toward Moscow.