Nice pussy to be found in library

[paulham]

A Kent library has been visited almost every day for two years by its own "puss in books", the council has said.

Fidel, an eight-year-old black cat, turns up at Deal library almost every day while his owners are at work.

He spends the day on his favourite blue chair, only leaving the building when he sees his owners arriving home.

Staff say they have never tried to encourage Fidel with food and even used to put him outside when he first began to visit them, but he always came back.

'Art critic'

Heather Hilton, district manager for Deal Library, said: "Fidel certainly seems to like coming here and he's very popular with our customers.

"I think he's a bit of an art critic too because we sometimes see him examining the pictures on the gallery wall," she added.

A spokeswoman for Kent County Council which runs the library said Fidel was such a "dedicated customer" that he sometimes arrived before staff and could be found waiting at the front door.

Fidel is a rescue cat, whose owners chose him from a local sanctuary after he was found abandoned in a flat in Deal.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8021407.stm

Whaddya think I meant!??

[loulou]

It's like a cat creche and I think it's lovely that the cat is there each day.

[goldencup]

One of my local libraries has a cat too but a few of the customers keep complaining about him.  It's very difficult to keep him out as the doors are automatic and he comes in with the customers every morning.

[oldspice]

This is a lovely story! What a lovely name too. Fidel.

[drterror666]

My cat, Mr Pudding, looks like Fidel.

[paulham]

What's he reading at the moment?

[loulou]

Puss in Boots perhaps?

[paulham]

Catalogue?

[drterror666]

Mr Pudding reads cat food labels!

[loulou]

Cat in the Hat?

[loulou]

My cat is very greedy and needs to read the signs that i'm sick of her climbing on top of the wardrobe and leaping onto the bed at 3 in the morning then proceeding to knock things of the dressing table one by one and stare at me until i get up and give her more biscuits.

[oldspice]

That's so strange Lou because our little Maggie likes to jump on us from the top of the wardrobe. Along with her sister, she has also learned how to knock the Go Cat box on its side so that some biscuits spill out.

[paulham]

My cat is very greedy and needs to read the signs that i'm sick of her climbing on top of the wardrobe and leaping onto the bed at 3 in the morning then proceeding to knock things of the dressing table one by one and stare at me until i get up and give her more biscuits.

Hmmmmm, nobody likes a fat pussy.

[loulou]

Fat people may like fat pussies.

[paulham]

Hmmm. They get all wheezy.