Sir, – I must take issue with Luke Holland (February 9th).
As one of a household of human, canine and feline inhabitants, I feel that I am qualified to comment. All three species are intelligent and affectionate, each in their own way but the most demonstratively affectionate and least zombie-like or vacuous is Thor, the cat. He likes to be wherever the action is, dashing up the stairs ahead of me to lend a hand, or rather a paw, in the bed-making process, fighting with the pillows and dodging the duvet. A great companion but also a nuisance in the evening when he is the cause of many a dropped stitch when assisting with my latest knitting attempts.
He is sitting on my knee at the computer as I write, so if there are any spelling mistakes, missing punctuation or other anomalies, they are compliments of our loving and intelligent cat, Thor. – Yours, etc,
SUZANNE HAYES,
Glenageary, Co Dublin.