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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Viv Groskop

The pet I’ll never forget: part mafia boss, part Artful Dodger, Julian the cat scorns society’s rules

Boss cat … Viv Groskop's pet, Julian.
Boss cat … Viv Groskop's pet, Julian. Photograph: no credit

I grew up around different kinds of domestic cat. My grandparents had a cat. My parents had three. My sister has had seven cats over the years. So I thought I was pretty familiar with their behaviour parameters. That is until I met Julian.

Julian is a law unto himself, less cat and more Artful Dodger with mafia stirrings. We got him from an animal rescue charity in Hounslow, west London, in 2019 when he was presumed to be around two years old. All we knew about him was: “He cannot tolerate living with any other animals or with small children.”

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