A Cat's Life - from the cat's mouth

Right from the start I loved to read. Fortunately the woman had plenty of books about and encouraged me in my passion. Many an evening I napped on the bookshelf, lost in far-off worlds, imagining myself as Puss in Boots or the Cat who looked at a King.

I developed a talent for writing very early. It was a result of my early abandoned days and the total immersion in the fantasy world of fictional cats.

I learned to imagine, to use the world of literature as escapism, to dream.

I took up blogging originally as therapy when I lost an old feline friend. I was depressed, despondent and didn't know what to do with myself. Then I realised that the woman kept herself busy clack-clacking on her computer keyboard, stopping only occasionally to grab a tuna sandwich. Nothing seemed to worry her for long.

When she retired for the night I took a long look at what she had been doing. She was writing in a blog!

Like a thunderbolt it hit me! I, too, could write my own blog!

So, Old Cat Gossip was born.

In the April of 2009 I discovered that Squidoo has no resident cat writers!

How can people learn anything about cats if there is no one to guide them? In typical unselfish manner, I have set about to right this wrong, to plug this gap, to fill the terrible void in Squidoo.

Please allow me to show you the lenses I have made from the cats eye view.

How I admire the BIG cats of the world!

Sadly, because of the senseless, stupid and selfish actions of people, most of these cats are about to join the smilodon in the catastrophic category of extinct species.

I intend to continue my fight for recognition of feline talent with an infusion of lenses from the view of a cat.

If in some small way I can give an example to younger cats, if I can encourage a talented kitten to develop latent talents, if my efforts raise the status of cats in society, I will be content.