Toots, a seven-year-old male tabby cat, had crawled deep into pipes underneath the property in south west Scotland.

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The hyena man will push them away when they get too aggressive as though he is handling the family tabby cat.

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Phoenix, a tabby cat, was just a few weeks old when she was found in a coal bunker with horrific burns.

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Walking home from school, after breaking up for the summer holidays, she comes across a fat tabby cat called Arnold, who, much to her surprise, introduces himself.

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In the living room, walls constructed from a modern version of tabby a 17th-century concrete studded with oyster shells surround a fireplace, while upstairs, glass walkways open up onto what would otherwise be cloistered hallways.

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Yet to justify the valuation Zynga is reportedly seeking, investors will have to convince themselves the company can keep the hits coming for years and that users will keep paying for orange tabby cats.

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