@WhimsiCat @theriddleq i was certain this was an expression or something, but i couldn't find it while searching tonight! i realized what i should've tried to find a reference to it and now i feel dumb.
in the text, it's literally "neko wo kabureru" -> "can wear a cat". i couldn't find anything with that text, but i should've just tried "neko wo kaburu", i found the definition just now after all:
https://jisho.org/search/%E7%8C%AB%E3%82%92%E8%A2%AB%E3%82%8B
also, this sentence was simple enough that i wouldn't have needed MTL, but i still don't know most of the expressions, so my own take on the translation yielded the same thing, lol