9 Dad said, "Okay, bring the cat onto the porch for the night. But don't let it into the house." 10 From the way my sister carried on, I think my parents realized it was a fight they would not win. Denise was all smiles as she dried the cat with a towel, fed him, and then made him a bed from old towels. She would have slept out there with the cat if my parents had let her. 11 So, the next morning we packed the cat into the car for a trip to the veterinarian. "If we're going to have a cat, we'd better make sure it's a healthy one," our parents declared 12 The veterinarian pronounced the cat healthy but was surprised by the cat's size. "He must weigh more than twenty pounds," she said "I don't know