TCLS is very sceptical of any such link; mental disorders of schizophrenia are a symptom of coping with the external world and inner innate compulsions in human beings from what I have experienced over a long period of time. If one longs for freedom and one is cooked up in the modern economy where one has to earn a living to set rules and regulations the individual unless he or she has attained full knowledge lives under delusions of what is the Reality.
Cats have been around for a very long time domesticated into habitation with humans.