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Our boy cat is not the brightest pin in the box. He is gorgeous to look at with his long white hair, black mustache and insanely long whiskers. He is huge even for a tom and acts like a moody teenager most of the time, slouching around, flopping down and generally annoying his sister.

He is the first cat we have had who sleeps so soundly you can move him and he does not wake up. My boys were giggling one evening and when I asked why they said to look outside. There was our cat sound asleep in his basket in the middle of the lawn! They had moved him and he had not even stirred. As we watched he woke up, stretched, yawned, looked around him and up at the sky as if to say ,' well, how did that happen?' he then went back to sleep.

We did bring him back in so when he woke up he maybe thought he had had a dream!

His sister is far cleverer. She will annoy him by lying down close to him but out of reach and then 'stretching'. With each stretch she edges closer to him until she can bat him with her paw. He never realizes what she is doing.

However, sometimes we wonder just who is cleverer. The female sometimes brings us a gift in the form of a mouse and lays it at our feet, proudly meowing. Not really wanting to encourage this, we usually put it outside.

Five minutes later, the male cat will often bring in the same mouse and drop it as if to say, 'look what I caught! Now, that's clever!

On the other hand, he is as daft as they come. We have a nest box on the shed and last year the lid began to work loose so you could lift it up as if it were on a hinge. We saw the male cat stealthily walking along the fence towards the nest box. I began to fear for the safety of the chicks I knew were inside but there was little I could do. I never thought he could walk along such a narrow fence.

Then, about an hour later I saw a sight which really made me laugh. Our cat was sat on top of the nest box. Every time he tried to lift the lid it would bang down again because of his weight. He never thought to get off and try it from the side. He was there for ages but apart from the noise the little birds were safe. I then saw something even funnier. An adult blue tit flew into the nest box directly in front of the cat. They were ignoring him. He was so intent on the lid, they felt quite safe and as I watched, he really was ignoring the birds who simply carried on around him.

We fixed the nest box this year and moved it higher. I could not think of those chicks having to put up with that incessant banging!

Cats are wonderful companions and you do not often think of them being funny but they really can be and our two just seem to have the knack for it.

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