Black Cat Stan

..three little ginger dogs, smaller than me. They were looking at me in my cage and I was looking at them. That’s why I was growling. I don’t like dogs. They try to beat me up. I was fighting other cats a lot and always avoided dogs until…

I opened my eyes and looked around and I was in a cage and I wanted to escape.  I couldn’t miaow.  I was kicked in my throat once.  I remember that.  I licked my arms which had no fur and I tried to lick under my chin where there was no fur and I looked around and saw…

Last night I dreamed a lot.  I was growling because things smelled so different and I didn’t know the place.  I felt very strange and my body hurt in many places so ….

…I heard her name called, and she turned and looked around at her human, who told her to come home, so I left and went home to find my litter tray. My human was calling me “Stan” in a high voice, that means…

…Mrs Tiddles in her garden she is a princess, she is a beautiful tortoiseshell. she was watching the mice coming down the wall, paw waiting to catch them. And then…

After days of house, I was let out the back to find my territory. I had to jump on to the wall to a shared roof, and then over another wall and down onto a garden. then up through a trellis strong smell of Fox. I hate them. the onto a roof and I saw…

I hid under a shelf under the sink where not even a hand could touch me. I waited for the dog to go away. When I came out I was given cat biscuits – very nice – so I started looking round and…

I had my own sofa, dinner plate and brush. I love being brushed so this all looked promising. Then a human came through the door attached to an enormous yellow dog with a nose the size of my head. I was very thin so…

When I woke up I was in a big cage and around me were three dogs. They were smaller than me but I hissed the words, ‘Don’t mess with me’ and ate my food in peace. Then I was put in another cage and this time I went to a place where some-one said, ‘here is your bed’ and I jumped up on a small sofa just the right size for me …

I was so ill another human came to collect me in a cage. I don’t like cages but I was too ill to put up much of a fight. The lady took me somewhere where they stopped the pain in my chest and under my chin. I heard them say that there was no blood in my veins. Maybe I was going to die. Then I went to sleep…