This is so unfair!

Okay, these are two kittens called Dude—the big black one—and Holly and they live with my Very Important Friend, Commissar Pete Hendy (see my post of March 19), and I don’t really mind if the Commissar and his good wife, Sue, prefer kittens to puppies. It takes all sorts, etc., etc.; live and let live, I say.

But, have you noticed something? What these kitten are lying on is a bed, and Commissar Pete confirms in his email that sleeping on the bed is totally permissible behaviour—except when Dude becomes disorderly; unpacks the contents of the wastepaper basket, eats earplugs, fights with Holly, and so on and so forth.

So why, I’m sure you’re asking, is this totally permissible behaviour for Dude and Holly and totally forbidden for Moi, who has never eaten an earplug in her entire life? (Well, not so far as I know. What is an earplug, anyway?)

Meanwhile, my dad got a very nice email from Maryann Chernovsky, who is president of the Little Shelter Animal Adoption Center. She said: ‘Please extend our gratitude to Josie for spreading the One Call word via her blog. Our poster looks amazing, and we are delighted she was able to use it. It is one thing for people to share the idea with their friends, but it is certainly more impressive when a dog makes the appeal!’

Exactly!