The Tompkins family intended to take a holiday aboard a cruise ship bound for the Carribean, stopping on the first leg in New York.

Unfortunatley cats are not allowed on board a ship, so poor old Bonkers would have to spend the next three weeks at dear old Mrs McDonald's farm, with his two brothers Billy and Scruff and his sister Ginger. Bonkers was born there three years earlier.

How could they possibly think about going on holiday and leaving me behind? Hmmm we will have to see about thatthought Bonkers to himself.