Who comes first, your partner or your pet? In the latest issue of The Cat magazine that I’m currently working on, regular contributor John Walker writes about his recent marriage and how his wife now has to figure out the hierarchy of the house in which his cat, Dexter, is always on top. I’m rather chuffed with how the illustration came out, particularly the smug look on Dexter’s face.

How do you know if a cat loves you? By the amount of squinting they do. And like the loving owners we are, we squint back in an endless toing and froing of mutual appreciation. It’s only when someone else notices that you begin to realise how silly you look…

Cat owners are generally split into two groups; those who love cats and those who LOVE cats. Which one are you?!

This comic was inspired by Sarah, a reader who told me about her dearly missed black and white cat who once got somewhat of a surprise from her pet Chihuahua while he was trying to have a drink. In Sarah’s own words, the chihuahua “suddenly decided that my cat was the sexiest thing he had ever seen.” So this is for Sarah, her shocked moggy and ardent chihuahua.