To this day, this is one of my most favorite things I've ever drawn. For a project in college, I needed to do a collage of cats. I was looking up references, and saw a cat chewing on the end of a stick. I thought he looked like he was smoking a pipe. Viola, this was born.
He looks like a villain to me. In my mind, I've always pictured him being the pet of a pirate captain, instead of having the stereotypical parrot. And this cat is an evil bastard. With psychic powers. Which he uses to bend the captain and the crew to his will. Everyone thinks it's the captain in charge. But nope. It's the cat.