[Rumpelteazer]

My father agrees with the plan to get a cat. We told my mother about our decision. She said that she doesn't want a cat, but in a way that says she would love to get a cat.

However, it isn't the right time of the year. We'll have to wait until it cools down again. With the warm weather we not only have to shop door open but also to the at the top of the stairs to our home. I don't think that is a good idea with a new cat, it's better to let it used to upstairs before letting him or her downstairs in the store.

We've always had inside cats. Although Nikita occasionally visited the café next door and once chased her arch nemesis Momo across the street, down the stairs to the wharf and right into the water.

I've already been looking at things we need to get; we've given away or thrown away all the cat things we had.

And of course we're going to adopt from the shelter. Our first three cats came from shelters. Nikita was raised by neighbour after her mother died when she was a couple of days old (or rather she was raised by Jack Russell dogs) and Lexie we found in the cellar and since she wasn't registered as a lost cat she stayed with us.