THE CAT WHO really did have NINE LIVES!
Roland Perry, 74, Melbourne, Vic
Tibby! I gasped, horrified.
Tiddly after a drinking session at our place, my dad, Trevor, and his mate Bill had got our black and yellow-striped tabby cat all wet as a prank.
I was only eight, but next time I saw Bill, I had a crack at him. According to the former sailor, though, not all felines hated the water.
‘I’ll tell you a story about a cat,’ he grinned.
Just after midnight on March was sunk by Japanese naval forces in the Sunda Strait off the coast of Java, Indonesia.
