Eight lives left

David got a bit upset tonight when he thought we had run over a cat. It leapt off a wall, straight in front of the car and across the other side. I braked sharply which saved its life, otherwise it would have went under the wheels.

There then followed a discussion about how cats have nine lives. David did point out the logical fallacy in this, as he has seen the odd dead cat by the roadside and he thought it unlikely they had been run over eight times previously...