The Christmas Day Kitten

A story taken from James Herriot's Vets Might Fly combined here with Ruth Brown's really stunning pictures. The vet calls on Mrs Pickering who owns three Basset hounds and in passing meets Debbie, the stray cat who visits there. Three months later on Christmas day the vet gets a call from Mrs Pickering in great distress to tell him that the poor stray cat is very ill. The stray cat, dying, has brought her kitten to Mrs Pickering to look after. A year later finds the kitten very much a part of the family teasting the Basset hounds and fetching a ball just like the dogs. Mrs Pickering tells the vet that Buster the kitten is the best Christmas present she ever had. This is a warm and sad and happy story all at once (and adults will love to read it too).