Dick and Perry are portrayed as cats because like felines, they look nice from a far but in reality they are predators. A scene of two cats meandering through the streets of Holcomb is described at the end of part III. These two cats are illustrated as strange but clever animals that are always together. The main actions of their day are preformed at midnight, where they go looking for dead birds and they go where the best chance of finding birds is. The description continues with the detail that they use their paws as instruments to get every last morsel out of the birds (246). Ever since the murder of the Clutter’s Perry and Dick have been inseparable, just like the cats are portrayed to be. Perry and Dick are also undoubtedly strange people, both in their looks at personality, but they are also somewhat clever. Although it may not be moral correct they have found a way to live for a considerable amount of time without any income. Also besides the set of footprints left behind Dick did a remarkably good job in planning the murder of the Clutters. Dick and Perry have always gone where they thought they could get money, a motivation, which in turn led them to the Clutter’s ranch. Also just as the cats do their scavenging at this time, Dick and Perry’s greatest misdeed, the murder of the Clutters was done in the dead of night. In describing the cat’s claws as instruments the reader is drawn back to where the gun in the back of Perry’s car was called his other instrument. These things, although completely different in look, are instruments of destruction. Dick and Perry are again portrayed as cats through the soles of their shoes: “We had the boots, both pairs, and the soles- the Cats Paw and the diamond pattern” (216). Dick has left his “paw print” at the scene of the crime but so has Perry. Perry’s soles have a diamond patter, diamond like the shape of a cat’s eye. Expressing Dick and Perry as cats shows that they must have similar qualities to cats. And indeed Dick, Perry and Cats all look friendly enough from a far, but in reality they are predators with the instruments to kill.