Chris enjoys feline fine dining – and some aerial dramatics...
Chris Pascoe’s Fun Tales
Teddy regularly descends on tables from the sky
When you spend your life looking after cats and writing books about cats, what do you do for a day off from cats? That’s right – you go to a cafe absolutely bursting to the brim with cats. It’s a no-brainer. Literally.
The place in question was a cat themed cafe, and somebody thought it would be a good idea to book me in for a birthday lunch there… A lunch with 12 cats.
When told about this gift, I remember thinking I’d really been hoping for one of those high-powered monoculars, so I could view things close-up from a distance, rather than just walk over to them, but the cat cafe it was, and it actually turned out to be a lot more fun than I could ever have imagined!
The first cat I met on arrival was Emmy, a tabby missing a leg and half a tail, but this didn’t stop her giving me a warning nip when I bent down to stroke her.
“Well, this is going as predicted, I must say,” I muttered as she marched away, half-tail to the sky, giving me the haughty tea towel-holder farewell.
Next up was Xena, a high energy tabby who apparently runs all night on a giant hamster wheel. I didn’t see her move once in the two hours we were there. My type of cat.
A third cat, Mercury, was asleep on a blanket and so out for the count he didn’t seem to notice he was in a cafe full of people.
Two completely still cats in a row – I was really beginning to like this place.
But then… I met Teddy. Regular readers may wonder how my barely-sentient rabbit made his way into a cat cafe in Hampshire, but no, not that Teddy. This was a one-eyed long-haired tabby, and I sensed his presence long befor
