These two—one completely white and the other completely black—always lay together so closely intertwined that all our visitors thought we had trained them to look like the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol. We were contented with our cat family, but it wasn’t long before our situation changed dramatically.Some friends of ours who owned a Siamese cat were going overseas and at the last minute had been left in a position where they had to find a home for her. When they first asked me it was easy to say no. I pointed out that we already had two kittens and that the older cat might not take to them. But my friends were desperate. Desperate enough that they said they would deliver her around to our house in half an hour. It left us no time to think, so somewhat reluctantly I agreed.When Richard arrived he was very grateful, but he issued me a warning. ‘This cat is a very self-willed being,’ he said, ‘but I’m sure she will get used to you.’They were in a hurry to leave, and so Richard ran through the garden to his car to fetch the already traumatised cat.
