Catweazle was called Joris (Dutch for George) at the cat shelter. When I came looking for a cat, in May 2003, I fell for Jiskefet straight away. This was not to Joris’ liking. Apparently he had taken a shine to me, and he took great pains to get noticed. He gave me what we came to call his Catweazle-look.
For those of you who are not familiar with Catweazle:
He was the main character in a 1970s tv series, a medieval magician transported into the present, and he had an extremely haunting, mesmerizing way of staring at people.
Well, you guessed it, we adopted joris, too, and renamed him Catweazle, and to the day Jiskefet died, the two toms were inseparable.
