No. They don't push back. Have you every fingered a cat ? Get a small jar of beef paste and slowly insert you middle digit into, then move it in a clockwise rotation. It feels almost the same but it tases different
No the cat exists it's only a question of whether it's alive or dead... Or both at the same time! I should imagine though that the process in question the answer would be alive then half alive then dead
How guilty do you feel if you whack one off and the cat walks in as you finish? I imagine it's like when a random celeb like Susan Boyle pops into your mind as you do it... feel proper dirty and wrong.