I rarely lie but you're welcome to think it's bollocks until proven otherwise. It's called inflation - money becomes simultaneously worth more and less as prices rise to meet production costs. It's a whole thing.
It's the really big eyes and the fast twitching tail you have to look out for the most. That's when they're ready to claw you.
You've never seen a polydactyl cat then. Cats with extra toes and thumb-like appendages.