I've noticed on films etc that in USA they don't seem to have plastic bags at the supermarket, just large paper ones. Very green of them, but how does one carry a bag like that? Clutched to one's chest?

When kittens, our cats loved the huge bookshelves I had around the house. Smokey liked the dictionary shelf at the bottom, Minty the non-fiction paperback novels and Murphy preferred to be on the top shelf with the recipe books. They always looked like rather lifelike china book ends
My sister told me today that Maxi, her daughter's cat, absolutely hates it when she plays her piano. She sits on the top of it scowling, and whacks her face with a well-aimed paw until she stops.