Reader\'s Digest Australia - 07.2019

78 | July• 2019

HUMOUR

I

UNCLIPPED THEkennel latch-

es and waited for Orwell to exit.

After nine hours of pageantry

• being manhandled by judges
  and relentlessly baby-talked
  by spectators – this box was the only
  thing he trusted. Eventually my
  wife, Janae, enticed him with a trail
  of treats and he sauntered out into
  our apartment, woozy after his cat-
  show debut.

You are wondering what kind of

people put their house pet in a cat

show. But it is the wrong question.

The right one: why him and not our

other cat?

The boy is a Siamese-cross, and

cross-eyed. His coat is like cashmere

and he is perilously cuddly. As for his

companion, the girl, she’s a plump

blue tortoiseshell – plain-Jane. What

she lacks in looks she makes up for in

BY OMAR MOUALLEM

FROMHAZLITT

What entering my pet into a

cat show taught me about the

true nature of felines

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ILLUSTRATIONS: GRAHAM ROUMIEU