The moronic inferno descends

Mycroft

Frankly I'm getting pretty bored with your vendetta against cats.

Rod Corby

Dear Rod,
Say what you like about cat owners, they are not as bad as the selfish, thoughtless, inconsiderate dog owners. Cat owners do not take Mr Moggie for a walk so they can s**t on everyone's front yard but their own.
Mr Moggie won't bark all day when their owners are away or all night when their owners are down the pub.
And they deny the very thought that Snuggles Darling barks when they are away. They don't hear them so the dog does not bark. Clear as the view through their head--look in one ear and see out the other side. And that is the owners; the dogs are even more brainless.

Elise

Rod,
if it will cheer you up our two dogs regularly kill cats thick enough to come into the garden, luckily we live in a country where they are considered vermin and so we have never had the police knocking on the door. My daughter, a cat lover, found your article hilarious, she's 11 years old and she didn't think you were serious.

stabledoor

No he's right - they think they're it the way they strut round the garden crapping wherever they pleaase and killing birds for fun. Hang them all

Eddie

What you say about cats, Rod, I think about children...

Noisy, smelly, rude, cluttering up an already overcrowded planet. And that's just the parents. Some of them probably poo in gardens too - but that's fine if the gardens belong to dog owners, many of whom should be put down. So Poop away!

Noa

Rod.
Welcome back! Sorry it was Neil Young, but then I always seemed to be in a minority in disliking his wailing; it remined me of cats.
A technicality; cat hanging is best done from gallows, as they wail for a long time as they swing in those gibbets.
But the Faure was a nice touch, cultured, dignified, even sentimental and way better than that wailing canuck.
A great, great post, btw do you know what the delivery times are at the local HMP? For flowers, cakes, files, verse by TS Elliott, hemp comprised products and so on.

Lungfish

Did you pop by The Saloon on Grant Street?

Ian

Rod

Would you come and deal with our badgers? Sounds like you have the imagination (and the right ideas) for it!

adrian drummond

How you tolerate stupid people is beyond me.

Pete

Be they dogs, cats or chinchillas - only peasants keep animals in the house.

Fearless Felix

Lucky you weren't arrested coming back into the country, Rod.
Before they catch up with you, have you got any tips on drowning kittens? I don't want to waste time or money sparing their pain.

Baron

never stop attacking cats, or those who owned them, please. The fluffy, filthy and often noisy creatures kill more garden birds than any other predator for no reason whatever.

the Mary Bale cat column ranks amongst the most courageous pieces of journalism for a long time - enjoyable, humane, decisive. The enjoyment would have been greater still if there was abit of eye gouging somewhere in the due process. Oblige next time, if you will.

JRR Catstrangler

Rod Corby appears to be one of the strange people who think that moggies are cats! Moggies are and always have been MICE.
Cats do not live down moggie holes, they are not caught in moggie traps ( well, apart from in Mr Liddle's garden - a wonderful place where the real moggies sit knitting ) and they do not feast upon moggie-meat (cheese). Cats are cats and moggies are mice. Well, in Wigan they are, anyway.

David Ossitt

JRR Catstrangler

“Rod Corby appears to be one of the strange people who think that moggies are cats! Moggies are and always have been MICE.”

JRR in Yorkshire and I suspect the whole of the North and Midlands a cat is a moggy, hence we speak of moggies for a number of cats.

Mice are and have ever been mice.

PS.

I am so disappointed, that Rod’s story of his execution of a cat is untrue.

I fervently hope his denial is just a device to protect himself from the mad mob.

smell the glove

Catstrangler, in Liverpool moggies are cats. During my first week down titmines a Wiganer telt me to "watch outfra moggies".On going underground with some trepidation; (expecting some wild ravenous cat to pop out of the darkness)only to be confronted by a post Belsen mouse who was blind to boot. So catstrangler and all you little wiganers cats are moggies get back to your pimblets meat an potato

William Jay

Where did those woodmice get their knitting from? I hope it was not from the poor Rod-handled cat, for I fear she may have been the mother of those three little kittens wot lost their mittens. How can we expect savage cuts when little kittens are left motherless by cruel journalists? I think Rod Liddle should contribute to the kitten's upkeep (*and* new mittens!) until they are of age.
And those knitting woodlice should get back across the Channel.

Mrs Mugabe

I wonder if these overtly feeble cretins would be as vociferous in their outrage if you'd been referring to trapping a baby in your garden? On another matter, I must admit to being surprised that in this day and age, UK morons are still using the postal system to vent their spleen. How retarded! Perhaps Cardinal Kasper has a point after all.

Noa Gibbet Tiddlestrangler

Doh! I just goddit!

Nothing was true, 'cos you can't hang a cat on a gibbet! Which, come the great Catskill trial of 2011, will be the basis of the Liddle defence. That, and the complete lack of a body, (thank god for those council bins eh?) But I wouldn't plead the Macnaughton Rules if I were you.
As for character witnesses I suggest you don't ask Diane Abbottess, or Marcus Sunblock. And surely any representatives summoned from this blog will only firm up the Beak's initial impressions of a well dodgy cove, befitting the MSM and the insane who roam the cyberway therein.

mdzend

Could you post the instructions for the snare kit? I hate the thought having to fill a wheelie bin up with all the neighborhood kitties.Would upset the binmen dreadfully I'm sure.

RichardH

Be careful what you jokingly admit to. If Plod take an interest they might do you for wasting their time. Allegedly.

merlinthepig

I HATE cats. They shit indiscriminately over my veg patch, kill baby birds and to top it all they bring my allergy on. They are nature's Nazis and this site proves it:

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl

Harry Calder

Come on Rod - I think you're just miffed because these responses to your article are funnier (albeit unintentionally) than the article itself!

JJR Catstrangler

By the flippin' 'eck, there's moor o' thooz daft buggers than A thowt! Thi sen moggies are cats and think Pimlett's Pies are fer Wiggin when annybody'll tell thi they're fer Sintellin. Un they cawn't even speyk gradely Wigginese ayther - a prime example being that one on um sez "watch outfra moggies" dehnt pit, when of course the correct term in Lancashire dialect is actually "watch eht fot moggies." ( because of course, the moggies will steyl thi jackbit).
But some folk just waint be towd, will they?
Cats are moggies? My erse!

rod liddle

Harry - you're right about that, mate.

Lungfish - I stayed in Sausalito, as per usual, and drunk in the No Name Bar which has a smoking room out back with interesting people in it. I couldn't find a bar in Haight- Ashbury where you could smoke; had to go to Lower Haight.

Mycroft - sorry, sir. But it's not a vendetta, it's a war. And the piece above wasn't actually about cats

JJR Catstrangler

A've just noticed as yon mon Smelly Glove says he used fot work dehn titmine. This ez me sorely perplexed. Wi on'y 'ed coal mines i' Wiggin and so wi ne'er extracted any tits at awe. Well, not dehnt pit, annyroad.
Times were hard. Wiz poor, wiz whelley klemmin' but wiz happy. Und moggies wuz what they alluz ed bin - mice.
If you should have any questions regarding the above, please do not contact to hesitate me.
Yours Sincerely, JRR Catstrangler.

rod liddle

And Elise - cheered up enormously. Please give my fondest wishes to your daughter.

Ozzy

I love animals but 2 points about animal rights activists that have always bothered me.

1. Some of them claim (a group called Voice 4 Animals flogs this line to death) that since humans are animals then we must treat them with the same respect as we do our fellow man. Well you show me a cat perform open heart surgery or a goat build a skyscraper and I will concede that we humans really are not superior to our furry brethren.

2. Many of them are very vocal in their opposition to humans killing and eating animals. So what is their reaction when they see a pack of lions maul a zebra to death? Or a spider chow down on a butterfly? Why is it ok for animals to kill animals for food but not humans?

That's not to say that I think cats belong in wheelie bins. I am just baffled by some of the nonsense these people come out with.

Frank P

Of mice .. and mean.

Oedipus 'Felix' Rex

Neil young? Neil Bloody Young!!!

I'd put up with more bird-munching, mice murdering, defecating catawauling from hundreds of felines rather than that nasal whinging hippie.

I'm seriously considering reporting you to the relevant ombudsman for inciting cruelty to music lovers of many types and of many persuasions. My grandma, and her pet doberman, have been severely distressed by this news. We feel incumbent upon us to report it to the PCC for having breached our inalienable entitlement to living free from low quality 70s student bedsit protest music and its promotion on blogs, etc, etc.

As for Christina Burton, Tom Halstead and their ilk, I have a remedy. There is a wonderful conservation zoo in Dalton on Furness in South Cumbria that has a wonderful collection of wild cats including the rare Siberian Tiger. Being very PC, AGW and Green and all that they feed them properly by making the cats climb difficult structures to 'work for' the meat.
I suggest we tie up the aforesaid people to one of these structures and watch approvingly as these beautiful animals tear them apart. We could at the same time join in a chorus from Neil Young:

Altogether now - "They were, helpless, helpless, helpless, HELPLESS..."

Amanda Has Alligators

Rod,
The question is: why would you write such deliberately provocative and therefore rather nasty lines in the first place?

I do not understand the unreasoning hatred, fear, loathing -- whatever you want to call the antipathy -- that so many people have of cats. Rescued a cat from a mountain once. He (as it turned out) cried for a home with such obvious need and pain that we practically ruined our holiday to save him. Only an unfeeling jerk would have shrugged; I have never heard anyone or anything cry like that. Our dog wouldn't accept a newcomer so we gave the cat, neutered and vaccinated and fattened up a little, to a shelter, where he was promptly adopted. I'm happy to say.

Rod expresses amazement and contempt, but the writers-in thought they had spotted a heartless bastard -- and god knows there are enough of them about. The fault lies with him; not with them.

Sense and sensibility, Rod: no gentleman can be without them.

Amanda Has Alligators

Elise, glad you're not my neighbour.

I had a neighbour in Texas with the same attitude: really nice guy, but I never did approve.

Cats aren't vermin: they're a higher form of life, and they ain't sharks, and they venomous snakes.

Your dogs regularly kill...

Shame on you.

Amanda Has Alligators

Pete:

What animal would have you?

My dog is far too good for you!

Amanda Has Alligators

merlinthepig:

Yet another commenter hell-bent on proving the malicious irrationality of man.

Well done, mate. You're a credit to your kind.

Amanda Has Alligators

Rod said: But it's not a vendetta, it's a war.

Rod, do grow up eventually, won't you? You sound like someone that never heard of the Enlightenment or anything better than the understanding of Druids. Cat-hatred is right up there with leaving poisoned cookies out for Santa and not putting a hat on the bed lest it offend the fairies. Yes, it's infantile, cruel, and unjustified. Get with it.

Eddie

So, in conclusion: some folk love pussies, and some folk don't.

I've got two, y'know. And I call them rabbits...

(PS surely you mean you 'drank' in that bar; or that you got 'drunk'. Or are you using the American now? [ie bad English]]

Don Birnam

Rod, Dunno about you but I always stick to the chicken dishes at ethnic eateries and takeaways. It is true that sometimes some of them will try substitute turkey for chicken, BUT no matter what you do it, you can't disguise cat as chicken. I addition to chicken dishes I am also very partial to a spot of goat curry when it is available.

smell t gleeuve

Catstrangler Y reet. av bin long taam aa tbeld.Corse pimblets aa sinhellens.yers truly an freekenfukindeeuth smell t gleeuve.

Clem the Gem

Cat lovers - often irrational. Probably members of BUAV as well.
Something weird in their love for an animal that so manifestly cares so little for them.
Anyone want a Guard cat? Sheep cat? Seeing-eye cat?
Thought not - Dogs rule. their owners understand irony.

Wily Catshit Trout

Stupidity is not an effect of owning cats, it is the cause.

I used to agonise about how to keep cats out of my garden. Then I bought an air gun. Now I spend my days thinking up ways to entice them in.

rod liddle

Me too Don.

Amanda, are you and your alligators writing from within a secure institution?

rod liddle

Oedipus(s) mate - Young is a great man, a great man. And a dog-lover, obviously.

WRB

So that's it then. Just a fantasy. It never happened.

Well I did wonder I have to admit. That bit about the woodmice did seem a bit fantastic all things considered. I just put it down to journalistic license.

But I certainly never imagined the whole thing was just a fiction from beginning to end.

It is disappointing Rod. I mean I had set you up a role model for my kids (yes, really - now do you grasp the scale of the thing?). Get them out of their endless preoccupation with mindless computer games like 'Resident Evil' and doing something contructive for a change. Hah! "Here's a man who can dish it out as good as he gets" I said ...

What about that thing with handbags you once mentioned? Am I really going to have to tell my kids that's all just so-called irony too?

What a way to treat your loyal reader base!

Davieboy

Hey, if you don't get Neil Young you should keep trying. Like the best things in life you have to acquire the taste, which then becomes addictive. The man is one of the giants of Rock - I feel compelled to defend him.
Hate cats BTW...

MC

"Say what you like about cat owners, they are not as bad as the selfish, thoughtless, inconsiderate dog owners. Cat owners do not take Mr Moggie for a walk so they can s**t on everyone's front yard but their own.
Mr Moggie won't bark all day when their owners are away or all night when their owners are down the pub.
And they deny the very thought that Snuggles Darling barks when they are away. They don't hear them so the dog does not bark. Clear as the view through their head--look in one ear and see out the other side. And that is the owners; the dogs are even more brainless."

Spot on. My high street and road are covered in dog mess. It's disgusting. The Council does sweet FA about it as well.

michael

Around 1,000,000 animals are
killed every night by 'nature loving' cat owners.

It's some sort of self-indulgent HOLOCAUST...What's going on?

Dixon

Crikey, how would such people react to "Apt Pupil" which I saw last night. Ian Mckellen would go in fear for his life! Not to mention the pigeon!

But I think you are also missing the point. When people get upset at actual cruelty to cats...and anything you can imagine in the interest of irony you can be sure has actually been done (for example the kid in my school who used to tie cats together by the tail and hang them over a washing line to see them fight) ...is not the harm to the animal but its owner! You wouldnt go up to an Airedale and kick its head in...because theres an owner nearby. Although in all honesty there was one in my neighbourhood which used to walk himself round and round the block at night getting so on my nerves that I pursued it with every intention to kill it...whilst wielding a camera (sort of "puppy-slapping" avant-la-lettre, this being twenty plus years ago).The dog repeatedly evaded me.

Its not the same with cats. They are off about on their own initiative most of the time. No owner in sight. So some who appear bereft of either imagination or empathy, thereby lacking a capacity for understanding the existence of unseen, probably unknown owners not-present, seem to regard cats as fair game, like rats or foxes ....oh I forgot, you insist foxes receive special protection under criminal law dont you Rod!

Funny that, truly ironic of you, in an entirely unintentional way!

Nicholas

Nail. Head.

I wondered how long it would be before a dog-hater chimed in (second post) writing bollocks. His second sentence is unintentionally hilarious. Where, I wonder, does he think "domestic" cats crap - in little portaloos in their owners gardens? Obviously deaf to the noises from fighting and shagging cats too.

"Cats on the rooftops, cats on the tiles
Cats with syphilis, cats with piles
Cats with their arseholes wreathed in smiles
As they revel in the joys of copulation"

hiro

is it me, or does Bob Dylan make Niel Young look below-average?

I am starting to realise that Bob Dylan is probably the greatest popular artists of the 20th century.

That is all.

Ray

"Meeeooowww, pussy cat!" - as that sanctimonious dame in the 'Goodness Gracious Me' sketch might have said.

Barry

Once again, you've succeeded in bringing out the worst in everyone.

Pure bile. Hope you're proud.

Osred

Rod,

What kind of wood was the gibbet and snare peg? It had better be from a sustainable source. The cat hanging community have a responsibilty to act in an environmentally friendly manner - or else.

Leon Vestey

I think that all dogs should have to have a dna test as part of the dog-licence process. Owners to pay of course. Then spot checks could be carried out and hefty fines extracted from the thousands of owners who allow their animals to foul pavements, public areas etc.

Leon Vestey

The cats should be licensed too.
They creep into our garden, mess up the plants and scare the wild hedgehog that lives there.

Robert Taggart

Roddy, how do you feel about feral pigeons ?
Kittie Cats and Sparrowhawks be most welcome in our garden !

Ken

The Africans have it exactly right, dogs and cats both into the stew pot - boiled alive. Can't happen quick enough in my view.

SimonP

Rod,
Do you have a copy of '101 Uses for a Dead Cat' and its subsequent tomes? If not, get it!

Macavity

"Pure bile. Hope you're proud".

The Scribblers 1st Commandment:

"Bile today pays bills tomorrow".

Eddie

Ken - some people might say that that would be a good fate for a quite a few Africans too.

I couldn't possibly comment...

As for cats: I admire their don't-give-a-fckedness.

Remember: dogs have owners; cats have staff.

Oh and I also consider it a humn right to poo in the garden of any dog owner who allows their mutt to poo on the pavement. Why can't these morons be arrested? Made to clear it up? Or eat it? Tough on dog poo - tough on the causes of dog poo!

Occasional Ostrich

@michael

"Around 1,000,000 animals are
killed every night by 'nature loving' cat owners."

Yup, to the cats they're "food". Can't get more natural than that.

rod liddle

The truth I'm a bit animal lib at heart. My main objection to domesticated cats is that they shouldn't be, and that they wreak so much destruction uopn our wildlife. Ironically, the creature they have drive to extinction is the Scottish wildcat, which they have effected by the unusual means of shagging it to oblivion (and thus virtually extripated as a species). I know cats are not individually to blame for this; the fault lies with the cretins who own them.
I have no problem with feral pigeons. I have no problem with foxes.

Geoffrey

Looking as usual for the slightest excuse to take offence, an industry these days. If you'd said you'd hired Blackheath common for a day, and hordes of people had travelled hundreds of miles on specially organised trains and coaches to enjoy a carnival and fireworks display culminating in the ritual public beheading of the thing, they'd still have believed you. Because to do so would have suited their agenda.

rod liddle

Ostrich, don't you understand the daftness of that remark? They're not indigenous to the country, they do not live in the wild, they have predators (apart from me). It is the opposite of natural.

Bill Corr

Well done, Rod!

Is there a parody children's book here?

"Mrs Chaffinch and her youngsters chirped with gleeful joy as Tiddles and her six kittens were drowned one by one according to the sentence of Judge Woodmouse's court."

It's a few years ago now, dear readers, but please look up the BONSAI KITTEN HOAX tale on the internet; some naughty college smarties in the U.S.A. invented a preposterous and wholly implausible yarn - no details will be given here - and the scores of witless felinophiles, mainly female, fell for it hook line and sinker and called the police ...

Brilliant!

Dixon

Rod speaks:

"I know cats are not individually to blame for this; the fault lies with the cretins who own them."

I rest my case.

merlinthepig

Amanda Has Alligators:

"Yet another commenter hell-bent on proving the malicious irrationality of man.

Well done, mate. You're a credit to your kind."

Thanks, Mad Ana, I'll take being a credit to humanity rather than the being in the morally warped position of regarding animals of being either the equivalent of or superior to humanity.

And my malice is entirely rational, I can assure you.

maddy1

Actually this is front line stuff and so relevant to many topics affecting us today. Even the RSPB denies that cats kill birds/rodents so as not to negatively effect their donations. Show me a piece of greenery and I will show you every square milimetre fouled with the excrement of selfish pet owners (usually the pets not the owners). People usually negatively and selfishly inflict their children on others closely followed by their pets.

Eddie

Why such a problem with cats killing birds (though a million a night seems way over the top!). I hate birds!

Their beady evil eyes staring at you -like the failed dinosaurs they are! And they poo all over my car! What is so special about these flipping birds? Noisy, smelly, damaging to property, and evil-eyed. The fewer the better, that's what I say!

And these people who keep birds as pets. Why? Are they nuts? Or just sad beyond belief?

How I long for 'The Birds' the attack! (Bill Oddie can get pecked to oblivion first). Then we can get on with eradicating them without silly sentimentalists shrieking 'bird murderer!'

Don Birnam

I have always thought that there is something deeply suspect about men that like cats.

rod liddle

Men who own cats are always sexually deviant. But I'd like to be clear that this is not the reason for my animus.

Eddie

Rod - surely, all men - with or without cats - are sexually deviant?

Or is that sexist?

MissingOut

Have had to cancel my magazine subscription, couldn't quite justify the student loan but am already missing it terribly and snippets like this remind me why.

E Hart

Don't forget, the attitude of the British to pets is absurd. They are seen now - like almost everything else - as an extension of self. Some people just cannot see where the dog or cat stops and they start. This parlous and narcissistic persona has led to a lot of soppy nonsense where animals are concerned. When once they'd have been jabbed and put down, they are now going in for transplants, triple-heart-bypasses or the Duchampian fixed-wheel option - for that missing limb. It was all so much easier - although sometimes distressing - when they got a jab and went into the sack. The veterinary surgeon is now like some Babylonian high priest, who cut off from reality in his or her rarified world, attends to his ministry of fleecing the public in an atmosphere of fetid sentimentality masquerading as care. The pet industry is monstrous.

I consider this as a cry for help. Humanity lost in amongst the dog baskets and fur halos of favoured chairs in a miasma of misplaced emotion and sentiment. Woe betide you if you drop dead alone in the house with one of these monsters.

This Christmas don't be surprised if Santa rolls up on a sleigh pulled by surplus dogs for the blind. After all, they can't all get alternative work in the Andrex advertisements.

CharleyRay15

Rod

I know this reference is quite literally out of your league (seeing as you're a Millwall fan), but "arseblogger" (the "Arse" bit refers to the team considerably more successful than yours in North London) refers to the muppets who didn't get your article as "window lickers". Kinda hits the nail on the head doesn't it?

Frank P

"Men with cats are sexually deviant."

Men WITHOUT pussy can become sexually deviant too.

Your turn in the barrel, sailor?

kramekosum

Rod you're a genius. If I were not so "tolerant" I would campaign to have these imbeciles & maniacs sterilised and then elected to parliament. Hold on, are some of them at Westminister already? Now I get it...

Oedipussy Rex

OK - I'll own up to a bit of sexual deviance as a pussy lover, but not the perversion of the S&M master/servant (with role reversal) of the dog brigade (Heel! Sit! Up! Down! In! Out! barked commands by the barking mad).

But since this cat v. dog debate might be the catalyst that ignites World War 3, I'll just say that what is more important - and possibly is hinted at by Rod? - is a pet v. wild animal argument.

Give me wolves and wildcats (of all sizes) any day above pets - OK, guide dogs, I know, I know - so long as I'm allowed to defend myself against them should they decide I'm their next walking dinner. Wild life has a dignity to it that commands respect. Pets are merely receptacles of their owners displaced emotions and neuroses.

Rod & Davieboy

In all seriousness I'll take another listen to Neil Young. I'm a bit of a muso and I have very broad tastes. Any recommendations for starters? I'd be more interested in less well known, perhaps more recent stuff.
I doubt I'll get round to buying the ST for Rod's interview; you know - today's papers, tomorrow's cat litter.

Frank P

Eau de Pussy reeks (@ 11.44am).

Excellent!

Noa

Bale yesterday and today, back to bile tomorrow...

Ken Bishop

I have often wondered why stupid people are so often self-righteous. Is it (a) that their self-righteousness makes them unwilling to listen to other points of view, and thus unable to learn; or (b) because their stupidity makes them genuinely believe that their judgement is always right?

David Wilson

This is the result of taking Neil Young seriously. People start believing you too...

ollie

HHmmmm I find myself curiously torn here. As an owner of four cats, whom I all love dearly, I do find Rod's humour a tad mean. However, I agree with him whole heartedly about the mentality of the Facebook hordes.

A meeting place for socially inept, ignorant and narrow minded people.

By the way, my cats are all pedigree indoor types, and therefore don't kill anything!!

Phocion Timon

Good grief; and people wonder why I am a card-carrying misanthrope.

Mark McNulty

"obligates"? Come on, Rod. You're a bit better than that.

JohnAnt

Surely rather than the Faure Req. you should have had:
"Felines ---
Nothin' else but Felines..."

bernerlap

Another very funny article. I own cats and dogs but I have a sense of humour. My cat craps in its litterbox and I pick up after my dog.
People who do neither of these things deserve to have the p*** taken out of them. Keep up the good work.

Christina Burton

Dear Rod

I think YOU have missed the point completely. You have every right to dislike cats and denounce the extremism of people who wish Mary Bale harm. However 1) admitting to harming an animal and feeling happy about it rings alarm bells for most normal people-2) writing something so horrible it makes people feel ill, degrades the usual high standard of Spectator articles. Your work was unpleasant and infantile, like a kid writing rude graffitti and sniggering about it. You need to grow up and understand the difference between interesting opinion and bad taste, and consider the feelings of a broad readership base which, after all, keeps you in beer and subscriptions to TV channels which don't appear on your bill.

rod liddle

I don't drink beer. And you've still entirely missed the point.

A Bear

Where I grew up cats were very popular. People wore them in the winter.

E Hart

Miaow.

Jamie Stevenson, London

Biter bit? Joker joked? Are Tom, Christina or all the other 'mugs' for real? or satirical inventions by under-occupied readers trying to get a rise out of Rod? or kindly supplying him with copy for his next blog so that he can put more than just cat-meat on the table for the little Rod-ettes?