My dog Charlie doesn't like cats. I think it was beause Fluffy terrorised her when she was a pup.

I have thought about getting another cat after Fluffy died but Charlie is so against it I think I will give it a miss.

Cats are being discussed in depth on the Medieval blogs ever since this photo of cat prints on a 15th Century Manuscript was posted on the net.

There is a very good blog post on the Medievalist Blog that pulls all the evidence about cats back then together. It also quotes a poem that I love, about a white cat called Pangur Ban (White Cat): Everytime I read it I think of that monk working on his manuscript. Reading this poem he becomes a person I can relate to not just an anonymous medieval monk.
I and Pangur Bán, my cat
'Tis a like task we are at;
Hunting mice is his delight
Hunting words I sit all night.
Better far than praise of men
'Tis to sit with book and pen;
Pangur bears me no ill will,
He too plies his simple skill.
'Tis a merry thing to see
At our tasks how glad are we,
When at home we sit and find
Entertainment to our mind.
Oftentimes a mouse will stray
In the hero Pangur's way:
Oftentimes my keen thought set
Takes a meaning in its net.
'Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;
'Gainst the wall of knowledge I
All my little wisdom try.
When a mouse darts from its den,
O how glad is Pangur then!
O what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love!
So in peace our tasks we ply,
Pangur Bán, my cat, and
I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine and he has his.
Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;
I get wisdom day and night
Turning darkness into light.
Translated by Robin Flower