Котам обычно почему-то говорят "ты", хотя ни один кот никогда ни с кем не пил брудершафта.
Михаил Булгаков
The (very imperfect) EN for that would go, more or less, like this: "For some weird reason, everybody talks to a cat in a familiar way, even though no cat has ever drunk brotherhood with anybody"...