LITTLE JOHN

A MAN with a one-bedroom flat was not allowed to foster a cat because his home is considered too small. Joe Lines, 32, was told in a letter from the Battersea Dogs & Cats Home that the moggy would need its own room: ‘Although we do not doubt your commitment to animal welfare, it is a requirement that foster carers can provide the cat/kittens a secure, comfortable spare room of their own.’ That’s a new one on me. Our old labrador, Ossie, used to sleep on our sofa until we turfed him off and bought him a proper dog bed. Given half the chance, I’m sure he’d have loved his own bedroom. But since when have cats needed their own room? Most of them spend all night on the tiles, so why would they care? Anyway, that most famous of felines, Top Cat, wasn’t so fussy. He lived in a dustbin.