One day there was a little cat called Jeffrey who played football for Offaly.
His dream was to be the world’s best cat footballer. To get to be the best, he had to beat his enemy, Sir Dog the Third.
So Jeffrey trained and trained and trained and he improved but he never got past the bench. One day after his training, he met his best friend, Bobby the robot, who was always a step ahead in football. Bobby had been watching all Jeffrey’s training and he saw that Jeffrey wasn’t using his right foot properly.
“Why don’t you come to my house and we can do some extra training?” said Bobby.
“OK, I’d love to practise my shooting,” answered Jeffrey gratefully.
The next day, they started training in Bobby’s garden but suddenly Bobby’s batteries went flat because Sir Dog the Third has unplugged his charger.
“You can’t train now,” sneered Sir Dog the Third. “I’ll put the batteries back but first we have to have a cucumber fight.”
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In the past, when Sir Dog the Third and Jeffrey had been best friends, they knew everything about each other. Sir Dog the Third knew that Jeffrey’s greatest fear was cucumbers. Jeffrey was trying to remember what Sir Dog the Third had a fear of and, suddenly he remembered it was big dogs because he was a little chihuahua.
Since there were no big dogs around, Sir Dog the Third and Jeffrey started the cucumber fight. While they were fighting, Jeffrey lost two of his nine lives and was knocked out for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, because the fight was over, Sir Dog the Third plugged in Bobby’s batteries again. He checked his programmes and saw that he could turn into a large robot dog …
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