After long years of related studies, including a PhD, I now work in animal health and welfare, where I always wanted to be. I relax by pottering in our small but perfectly formed garden (well, I'm biased), playing with our two mad cats, escaping to the Scottish hills in a tent, or reading, often science fiction. I'm also attempting to widen my writing skills, including remembering how to write stories, something that I always used to enjoy in English classes way back in the mists of time.....

My passion is ...

Animal welfare

I know too much about ...

How food is produced

My parents always told me ...

Do your best

My childhood ambition ...

To be an astronaut

My favorite memory ...

Playing on my Grandparents farm in the summer holidays

Why I write ...

Because I enjoy it and to spread a little understanding

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Dr Who

My first job ...

Cafe/shop assistant on a campsite in Jersey

My best moment ...

Buying our first house

My inspiration ...

Imagination

Pets & Animals > Cat Psychology Cats and their sleep

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Cats of all shapes and sizes like their sleep, ranging from lions lounging about under the shade of a handy tree on the savanna during the heat of the day to the domestic moggie curled up in their favorite place - normally your favorite chair. It is an instinctive thing, born from generations conserving precious energy in between hunting bouts - many of which can be an unsuccessful waste of time and effort before they land their next meal. Our beloved moggies may well get two good meals a day, or even food on demand if they have their humans well trained, but this does not detract from the...

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