One such stray that arrived is now a family cat, a massive Persian called Blackie.

W00t…bit of a coincidence there – My cat’s called Blackie. She turned up on our doorstep about 8 years ago and started to hang around with my older cat Sooty (who unfortunatly is up there in the sky now after the vet took loads of his teeth out and didn’t bother to tell us.) She was pretty damn sick and thin – we fed her and sorted her fleas etc out (she was about 6mnths old at the time) and now she’s been with us for the past 8 years and is the fifth member of my family 🙂