Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

Midnight Visits the Vet

Midnight is a little rescue cat whose original owners reluctantly had to leave her behind when they moved away from England. She has come to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, a kindly older couple with a large house in the country. Midnight has a number of adventures with the Joneses and the other cats they’ve adopted, including a big ginger cat named The Colonel, two beautiful Siamese cats named Lucy and Sally, their house cats Jeremy and Jemimah, and an aging street cat missing half an ear, Scotty.

IT’S A WELL-KNOWN fact that cats, like all animals, do not like to go to the vet, and for Midnight it’s worse when she has to go by car. Today, though, that is exactly what is going to happen. Poor Midnight!

Midnight, the little black rescue cat, was lying in Mrs. Jones’s sunny conservatory, asleep. She was dreaming of nice things to eat, like fish and cream, and her little whiskers were twitching in delight when she heard Mrs. Jones calling her name.

“Midnight, Midnight, where are you?”

Midnight’s ears twitched, but she didn’t move. It was

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