It's Snot Easy To Understand

One of about a billion pictures of felines on the web. I do not 

have evidence that cultures stopped worshiping cats with the

ancient Egyptians.                                                                            

That picture is of a cat sneezing, according to the caption. I don't understand the fascination with cats, except that I do find it interesting that they hate water and apparently don't live in deserts. (?) Even more confusing is that apparently cat sneezes are amazingly cute, despite the fact that human beings find snot gross. I agree that snot is gross, of course, just don't understand the bit about how it can be cute if it comes out of a cat.

Can anyone explain that to me?