Kittycat Magazine Issue 1 January/February 2014 | Page 41

How I met my cat? Pikkie Eighteen years ago my wife discovered three little kittens in length of unused sewerage pipe in our back garden. We had been building at the time and the length of pipe had been left in a corner of the garden. My son Malcolm caught one of the kittens and kept it in a very large cardboard box for a few days. He still has the cat named Comet. I, on the other hand, did not catch a kitten. I encouraged him to come to me which he did after a few days. His name is Pikkie by the way. The third kitten was given to a friend by Malcolm. Pikkie grew up in our back yard and spent a lot of time in the company of our dog, Waldo, a cross between a Bull terrier and a Labrador. Pikkie slept in Waldo`s kennel with him. The kennel was situated on our enclosed back stoep so it was out of the weather all the time. I am convinced that Pikkie thinks that he is a dog as once Waldo passed on Jason, our Staffie, became his best mate. The two of them would sleep in the lounge together while we were watching TV. Seven years ago we acquired a puppy to replace Jason who had subsequently been put down due to his inability to urinate. The new puppy, Jonty, a Boston Terrier, gave Pikkie a hard time for about a year but Pikkie never gave up and he and Jonty have become the best of friends. They spend a lot of time together and sleep together on