I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it again and again and again: who knows why cats do anything? Just over the course of today, my cat purred at me, bristled at me and attacked a paperclip as i

DINNER time, Duncan!” I call, setting down a dish of the expensive cat food the vet recommended on the kitchen floor. Duncan trots in, sniffs it suspiciously, gives me one of his disdainful stares and

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WE nearly owned a cat once. He caused something of a neighbourhood dispute, too. My other half advised keeping our heads down because of it, but I really couldn’t do that when pegging out the washing.