A short collection of humorous essays about the cats that Leonard has owned. I don't want to say that he's the equivalent of a crazy cat lady, because it's not like he's a cat hoarder or anything, he just always has one (preferably two) around. It's not crazy to enjoy having a pet, but it's also pretty clear that he's never going to go out and get a budgie or a dog or anything like that. It's cats or nothing, and these recollections of various animals (including Rover, who managed to get himself locked in a vacant neighbouring hotel for nine days) are domestic and loving. The funniest story is Leonard and family smuggling a beloved family pet from England into Ireland, because pet travel had been temporarily banned due to disease and they didn't think the mog could cope with the isolation of quarantine. Which is the kind of rule-breaking which would likely be frowned upon right now, due to pandemic, but this didn't happen right now, it happened back then, and besides, the cat waking up and wailing through an entire following train ride was honestly pretty funny.