Recently by Steve Wollaston

We had it rough, me, mum and my five brothers and sisters.

Mum was abandoned by her owner five times, but managed to find her way back. Once, the owner took her so far away he got lost.

Bit of a bombshell.

The vet confessed, rather sheepishly, that he got the sex of the new kitten in the Lockley's life wrong.

Kightly is a she, not a he. And to think they were going to call her Butch.

Shame that - I was only putting up with the annoying fleabag because I knew there was a very big operation waiting round the corner.