It’s been suggested – via email and phone calls rather than comments posted here – that the cat in the photo used for last week’s post could not possibly be mine.
It is true that although I have been on close terms with many cats – black cats and greys, tuxedo cats, tabbies and tortoiseshells – there has never been a white one.
Had I found it sooner, this is the photo I would have used to illustrate pussyfooting: 
don't confuse the narrator 