Under The Paw: Confessions Of A Cat Man (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
During my final period living in the north-east Midlands with my parents, ours was a man called Frank. Lank of hair and economical of conversation, Frank lived next door and worked as a farmhand a mile or so up the road, but I remember thinking that, despite a certain ageless quality, he seemed a little too old to merit a job description ending in the word ‘hand’. Another thing about him that I found slightly unsettling was his habit of popping up from behind hedges on what felt like every occasion I ventured into our garden. Nonetheless, I had to admit that he came in useful in the aftermath of some of Monty’s and The Slink’s more heartless maiming exercises. He also proved invaluable in the summer of 1996 when our chickens began to succumb to a variety of unpleasant mishaps. Personally, I’d never considered chickens as pets. Unlike cats, they didn’t purr when you stroked them, and, even in the intellectually challenged field of birdlife, their stupidity was quite astounding.
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