Jeoffrey had to contend with two other feline occupants of the house in Lymm, Rosie and her ginger son, Montgomery, (Monty, for short). When in 1987 he moved to Lymm to live with his friend and partner Lindy McKinnel, he brought with him a small, pale, oriental cat that he called Jeoffrey, after the cat in Christopher Smart's poem ' For I will consider my cat Jeoffrey'. As for many years he lived on a busy road there were, far too frequently, sad casualties of road traffic accidents. During his married life he often said that he had kept a total of between sixty and seventy cats, always having more than one in the house, often even three or four, and counting in all the numerous litters of kittens that his cats produced until they were old enough to be found homes. As a child he had grown up with a spaniel, Sandy, but he didn't 'discover' cats until he married in 1958 and he and his wife, Jean, started to keep them. Robert Westall loved cats chiefly because he found them so enigmatic.
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