It really was, but it wasn't.

There once was a cat who was really a telephone. It was very annoying to the cat to meow at people for dinner and have someone pick it up and say "hello?" into its butt. Usually they would say "hello?" three or four times, and then put the cat down again. The cat stopped meowing for dinner and started leaping at people instead, but the people would scream and run. Then they would come back and pick up the cat to dial 911, which tickled.

Luckily, these people learned about telepathy. At the same time, they started a religion which required tunafish to be put inside of telephones, so the cat ended up okay.