Ollie gets that from his mother, Marblecake, who gave birth to him on our bed (Ollie has spent of his life ever since trying not to go more than a paw's reach of the spot where he first saw daylight). We got Marblecake as a 12-week-old kitten from a house in Glasgow where she was terrorizing the family dog. When I arrived with my cat basket to collect her, she was bouncing all round the house and there was a white Labrador huddled against the fence at the bottom of the garden.