Those are great ideas! Thank you so much for playing and for sharing your feedback here. I'm going to have to steal some of those haha.
I really like your motivation idea that's actually a perfect way to incorporate the cat's interests and favorite things into the game!
To deselect a cat you can right-click. I'm not sure if I have that in the info scene or not, might have to make the controls more clear in a future update.
Again thank you!