How did his parents feel about Joji's great interest in drawing cats in "The Boy Who Drew Cats"?

“The Boy Who Drew Cats” is a Japanese fairytale, published in 1898 and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. It tells the story of Joji, a young boy who lives on a farm with his large family.
Joji’s brothers and sisters are tough and are a great help to their parents on the farm. In contrast, Joji, the youngest, is small and fragile. He is also artistic and imaginative, and all he wants to do is draw pictures of cats. This unique hobby worries his parents, as they fear he may not grow up to be a self-sufficient farmer as they had hoped. Finally, realizing their son will not be a farmer, they send him to temple to study with a priest. But Joji still cannot stop drawing cats.