My parents had to go out to some kind of meeting or what not, out to do things
that parents do. I would have been left all alone if it hadn't been for my Tom
cat and one of the neighbours sitting for me.

The Tom cat looked just like a Scottish wild cat, wide faced, broad and
muscular. The neighbour looked like the neighbour. The neighbour who happened
to smoke a pipe, no less.

Pipe smoke and Tom cats don't mix. We were all in the same room. The neighbour,
sat on the settee, lit up. The cat went wild, he started running around the
room (anteclockwise, if that makes any difference). Not on the floor, as you
might expect a crazed cat to do, but around the walls way up to the ceiling.
He didn't looked frightened at all. He was just running and the walls were
covered with wallpaper, wood, wallpaper and curtains. None of which seemed to
hinder him in any way.

He would only stop when the pipe was put out. So, as I've only ever had the
pleasure to know one adult male cat, I was wondering if this is peculiar to
all Toms or to just one.

I think it's an extraordinary feat any way I look at it.

   Miaow