A shower in warm milk and as much of the stuff as you wish to drink. Every morning at 5.30 Tinker, a 13-year-old white and tan cat, comes in from a night on the tiles and hightails it straight to the cowshed. You see, Tinker is the champion mouse-catcher on Edward Hankey's farm at Shaw House, near Newton, Northumberland. She catches them by the score every week. Edward is so proud of Tinker that as he milks his cow at the crack of dawn he treats the mouse-catching moggie to a warm milk shower - and it's straight from the cow. Circa 1965 P011927

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A shower in warm milk and as much of the stuff as you wish to drink. Every morning at 5.30 Tinker, a 13-year-old white and tan cat, comes in from a night on the tiles and hightails it straight to the cowshed. You see, Tinker is the champion mouse-catcher on Edward Hankey's farm at Shaw House, near Newton, Northumberland. She catches them by the score every week. Edward is so proud of Tinker that as he milks his cow at the crack of dawn he treats the mouse-catching moggie to a warm milk shower - and it's straight from the cow. 
Circa 1965
P011927