Otis

Things can happen fast when they happen at all. You may have seent hat yesterday afternoon we went to the RSPCA rehoming centre near Exeter, met a cat and decided to rehome him. A visit by a volunteer was arranged to assess our home situation this morning, the lady came and spent an hour with us, mostly because we plied her with tea and got chatting. She put her report in and before lunch we had a call from the RSPCA to tell us we had been approved. We arranged to pick the little chap up this afternoon. We were home with him before 4 o'clock, approximately 24 hours after we first met him.

He's a dear little chap but as I said yesterday, he's had a hard time in his short life. He was found in a self-storage depot near Bovey Tracey. He had an injury and as a result, to quote Peter Cook in the Tarzan sketch, is now deficient in the leg division, deficient in it to the tune of one. The operation took place in November and according to the reports, it doesn't seem to have slowed him down.

Having arrived home, he immediately made for the sofa and is now firmly ensconced beneath it. He has to get used to being a photographer's cat though, so I took the liberty of poking a lens underneath the sofa and taking a shot. It's very noisy due to the high ISO but he had to be my blip to record his arrival with us. He was given a name in the cattery but it wasn't a proper name so after a lot of brainstorming and consideration of names, he'll now be known as 'Otis'.