Mary showed me some funny videos on the Internet the other day of dogs afraid to go past a cat.   It became obvious quite quickly that the cat was deliberately intimating the dog.  Size didn’t matter.  The cat was giving the dog the evil eye and daring it to try to get past.

That was the sort of thing that happened at the weekend when we were visiting family in Aberdeen.  Binky, the ginger cat was deliberately sitting on the kitchen windowsill, giving Poppy our little dog who was out in the garden, the evil eye.  Poppy will usually get very excited when she sees cats, and will set off in hot pursuit.   But she could not get at Binky who was six feet or more above her, and safely behind glass.  Poppy got so excited and started barking her little head off.  Score: Binky 1, Poppy 0.

Meanwhile in London, Pepsi, the kitten was practising her staring from inside a cardboard box.