A few things about Treacle the Cat

Treacle our Cat is a very special cat. He's a two and a half year old rescue cat from the Edinburgh Cat Protection shelter in Leith, which has a small cattery housing several cats and kittens. Treacle had apparently been a bit of a bully in his four months there, always chasing the other male cats! With us though he is adorably affectionate and very fun loving.

He's a very beautiful cat, his dark grey fur has black tabby markings running through it, but if you run your hand through his fur, it's white underneath. He has mismatching paws - two short white socks, one long white sock and one entirely grey leg! His wonderful colouring really shows up when he lies in the sun.

Originally Treacle came from Tunisia! The shelter don't know really how he got from Tunisia to Edinburgh.....

Treacle likes to drink water from a tap or from a mug, rather than from a bowl. He sometimes uses his paw to eat. He loves playing, today he spent about twenty minutes pushing round a small piece of carpet (which we hope he'll use to scratch on) trying to find a ball we'd made from reused aluminium foil. He likes to 'help' me as I weave oblongs for his cat blanket.He prefers to play with the wool that I'm working with, rather than the ball of wool I've given him specially to play with.....

We'll be keeping him as an indoor cat as we don't have reliable access to a good garden and we live close to a busy road.  Indoor cats apparently live longer and are (obviously) less likely to be run over, attacked by other animals, kidnapped or pick up illnesses. They're also much less likely to kill local wildlife.