faldage, you may be a bit confused, and words jumbled in your head into odd patterns:

cats are deathly afraid of taxes
perhaps cross-threading thoughts of Climax led you to "catastasis"

cats are deathly afraid of taxes ... sends them scurrying away to seek shelter.
nay: cats are deathly afraid of taxidermists, and their shelters are cat-houses (rather differently cross-threading to Climax).