'BOTHER that cat!' everyone declares.īut in the end Mog is forgiven, for, having fled the house after Debbie's dream she sits in the garden and spots someone in the kitchen. Mog is in trouble again when she sleeps on top of the television as Mr Thomas wants to watch a fight and then again when she creeps onto Debbie's bed and licks her hair thus causing Debbie to awaken screaming as she thinks she is having a bad dream. Debbie tries to put a good spin on it by saying, 'Nicky doesn't like eggs anyway.'Īnother day she is in the street and is chased by a big dog so she runs home, jumps up to the kitchen window and meows to be let in this time it is Mrs Thomas who says, 'Bother that cat!' And she has to repeat her statement shortly afterwards for Mog goes to sleep on a chair on which is one of Mrs Thomas' best hats! But at breakfast time she takes her revenge when, forgetting that cats have milk for breakfast and only have eggs as a treat, she climbs onto the dining table and eats Nicky's egg. One day Mog is upset when Nicky picks her up when she is still asleep she is not happy but she says nothing. While waiting for entry she will sit on the window box that Mr Thomas is proudly cultivating and he is always upset when he sees his flowers crushed and he always says, 'Bother that cat!' However, when it comes time to go back into the house she forgets she has a cat flap (see what I mean by design!) and she will sit outside the kitchen window and meow until one of the children lets her in. And she is always excited when she goes into the garden for she can smell all the smells, chase the birds, climb trees and run around with a big fluffed up tail. She has her own entrance, a cat flap that takes her from the kitchen into the garden. Mog lives with the Thomas family, mother and father and two children, Nicky and Debbie. Mog is a very forgetful cat, sometimes her memory loss is genuine, other times it is by design! Humorous and heart-warming, this is a picture-book I would recommend to all true cat-lovers, especially any who have ever known one that was a little. Her distress felt so real to me - after all, animals don't understand, for the most part, why people get upset with them - and her eventual (accidental) triumph so satisfying! Needless to say, I have a real soft spot in my heart for such cats - I just can't help it, I feel amused by and protective of them, all at the same time - so I just wanted to scoop the adorably confused Mog out of this story, and give her a big cuddle. None more so than my sister's cat Sweetpea, whom I have been known to call "Substance Abuse Kitty," because of her predilection for licking unhealthy things, like photo negatives, or the gold paint on wedding invitations (hand-made for my sister's wedding - now that was a crisis! ha!). It may sound like an odd thing for a self-professed cat-lover to say, but I have met some astoundingly dumb cats in my life. But then, Mog sees a light in the kitchen. ![]() When Mog's forgetfulness precipitates one crisis too many, leading to an unpleasant scene, the poor confused cat flees to the dark garden, where she thinks "dark thoughts," wondering if any of the Thomases even want her around anymore. She was a very forgetful cat." And so begins this hilarious tale of the adorable Mog, a plump kitty-cat who, while she may not have been the cleverest feline out there, had a heart full of love for her human family. ![]() "Once there was a cat called Mog and she lived with a family called Thomas.
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