Twilight Sparkle's plans have almost always worked out flawlessly, of course with some major exceptions on events that have happened in the past few years, but sometimes they don't turn out to be very logical to everypony else. So when she fell in love with a certain animal-loving pegasus, she had to devise a plan to earn the affection of her friend. After a bit of careful planning, she developed a strategy that she was certain was absolutely perfect:

To turn herself into a cat. After all, if you are what they love, they love you too, right?