Our Pets

There is really only one pet in our family now, a Maine Coon cat cross called Lodz. That's pronounced "Woodge" and he's named after the second city of Poland. Why? Because originally he had a brother called Katowice, named because he was black & grey like the city! So Lodz was nearly Gdansk, but in the end we thought he looked so cute he was really just a Woodgelet back then. 15 years later he's getting rather old and doesn't do much apart from sleep and eat and half-heartedly hunt birds. Although he did wait patiently for 6 hours in the rain until a rat emerged from under our neighbour's conservatory. Lodz caught and killed it. Together with Digby (recently deceased cat of said neighbour) Lodz notched up 19 rats in total from that nest before the Pest Exterminator arrived; not a bad tally for a cat who is the equivalent of 105 years old!