Grochat is a cat worth even less
We failed to find an owner for Grochat, the timid and rather
unintelligent cat we asked TAG readers to help us rehome in August, but Ross
decided to have him as a birthday present. To mark the change in ownership Ross
changed his name. Several times in fact but he ended up with Buster short for
Bustopher Jones because he has four white socks or spats as CS Lewis would have
said. I tend to call him ‘big yn’ because he is and our other cat who though
six is tiny is often called ‘wee one’.
Anyway Buster has gradually become less timid and eventually
declared the top floor his territory. Conquest of the stairs came next and then
he started to exploring the ground floor, the ‘wee one’s’ home turf. After some six weeks the two of them had
become fairly tolerant of each other, reaching the stage that each would sit
paws tucked under their bodies trying to out- stare each other. ‘Wee one’ might
utter a low growl for a minute or two but then they would just continue glaring
at each other until eventually Buster would get fed up and retreat.
But three days before Ross’s birthday Buster just
disappeared and Ross was rearly devastated. After all that effort we felt that
we had misjudged him and had been tricked by an ungrateful cat and we wondered
if he was on an enormous walk back to Paris and his original owner. However
after a week Ross was painting the windows and heard a rather pitiful series of
meows. There in our neighbours enclosed garden was a mournful looking Buster.
He had obviously jumped down into it but had not worked out how to get back out
onto our terrace. Hungry and very sorry
for himself Ross bought him back home. Not twopence short of a shilling. Most
like sixpence!
Ginny Jenkins
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Ginny Jenkins
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| Beautiful BIG Buster |
