A certain person may look at animal behavior from a certain perspective and they might be right when interpreting it from their perspective. But then another person could also be right when interpreting it from their perspective. There isn't a known global perspective so we have subjective interpretation of intent.
So it's not really about being right but about how people choose to interpret intentions. It's even about asking the question of whether intentions even matter? Do we know exactly the intentions of the cat? Not without reading the mind of the cat. If we knew the intentions of the cat wasn't what we wanted them to be would we not love the cat anymore?
I have to again emphasize on the fact that 'think', 'conscious', 'choice', 'opinion' are VAAASTLY overstated. Most attractions/addictions are based on stronger than tought deep rooted instinctive uncoinscious TROPISMS.