Jane Kelly

Searching for Stan

Jane Kelly on the sudden disappearance of her fat, drooling but beloved cat

issue 06 November 2004

I feel like Job. Everything of significance is being stripped from me. In August my flat in west London was badly flooded; on 25 September I lost my job; on Monday lunch-time, 25 October, my beloved cat Stan, apparently terrified at the sight and sound of me knocking in a fence post, took off and hasn’t been seen since.

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