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On March 16th and March 17th this book of cat stories is free:

Excerpt from Chapter 4

I walked over to the hole and rattled the bowl. There was a scared miaow from under the bath and some scrabbling around as though he was trying to move, but couldn’t. I looked at the hole and wondered how a fully grown cat could fit through it. From what I remembered of the floor under the bath, there were narrow pieces of wood, perhaps six inches apart, supporting the tub itself; my guess was that Freddie was located between two of these pieces of wood and was unable to turn around and attempt to come back out again. In a way this was good news, because I could at least grab his tail if he was close enough to the hole.
I put on a pair of gardening gloves as I wasn’t sure what sharp debris might be under the bath; I didn’t think that Freddie would hurt me as he would know he was being rescued. I hoped that I could retrieve him otherwise I’d have to have the bath removed, which would be expensive. I placed my right arm into the hole and felt a bit like one of the vets from the British TV series “All Creatures Great and Small”, who had to assist with the difficult births of calves. .

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