Here's a definitive answer to the question of a class system and the "lowly tabby" not being allowed to "snuggle" with the long hairs".
I went straight to the source and posed the question to Opie, my red tabby.
He said, "Us tabby cats, numerous as we are, with the broadest spectrum of color variations, and being of highest intelligence prefer not to engage the likes of "long hairs" in any sort of communal sleeping quarters. To do so would be the ultimate indignity as we do have our standards. Now what else would you like to know ?"
There you have it.
