MICKEY 191; Had to chuckle at your story about the neighbour who kept pigeons. It gave me a mental image of the old joke that closes with 'and disappeared in a flurry of shit'n'feathers'. (Sorry)
Oh, and the cat was okay. Returned a week later seemingly unhurt although it was thereafter reluctant to spend much time indoors.

RAPAIRE; Didn't realise that you'd been one of the unwitting lab-rats in that Post-Pavlovian Experiment scandal. Apparently, if any of the students involved hear so much as a car backfire they have instant and total recall of the MoDram lecture used for the test. You know what I mean; Chekov? Cherry Orchard? Bet you can recite the lot down to the last dot and comma.
:-)