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Last night, about twenty minutes after Frood<\/a> and I got home, there came a knock on the door. Frood answered it.<\/p>\n

It was a chap from the other end of the village. He’d found a cat in his drive the previous day, he’d said. It had been run over. Did we not have two black and white ones?<\/p>\n

Frood and I were convinced both the cats had been in the previous evening, but I said I’d go and take a look because I might be able to identify the owner and I had to be sure.<\/p>\n

I really wasn’t expecting it. I was so sure both the cats had been sleeping indoors the previous night. Yet there he was, lying in the box this chap had out in his garage, at first looking like he’d just fallen asleep because he often slept in that position. Until I saw the blood in his mouth.<\/p>\n

Mr Scrofulous Shelfbracket Scroggins<\/strong> (formerly known as Lammas) died age 7. He is survived by his sister Moss-Covered Four-Handled Family Gradunza<\/strong> (formerly known as Beltane). He was short-sighted, stupid, affectionate, chirrupy, rubbish in a fight, liked to play bongos on the window when he wanted to be let in, had a catnip habit and looked like Keanu Reeves.<\/p>\n

I liked him. Of the two of them, I liked him best, which is a rotten thing to say but there you go.<\/p>\n

Poor Munky<\/a>. Scroggins was his cat – they both are\/were. I felt awful carrying the box back to the house.<\/p>\n

He was buried in the garden with his favourite catnip toys. Don’t know if he’ll get a chance to use them but I’ll have a word with Bast.<\/p>\n

And then maybe I’ll call in a favour and have a word with Sekhmet. Scroggins managed to crawl up onto our neighbour’s drive. I can’t believe the driver was unaware of hitting him. The bastard should have stopped and taken him to a vet.<\/p>\n

Scroggins was not hard to spot. He had a lot of white on him. Drivers travel through our village far too fast. It’s small, narrow and twisty. But they’re locals – they know the roads, of course. We’ve had a lot of dead cats in our village these past 6 months. Next time it could be one of the children.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the nice man who trawled the village asking to find out who was the owner.<\/p>\n

Sleep well, Scrogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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