The Case of the Missing Cats (2006)
“Dirk loved his TV. It was from watching late-night movies that he had first got the idea of becoming a detective. He flicked through the channels. There was nothing on. A woman on a shopping channel held up an apparently revolutionary new duster. ‘Look around your room,’ she squeaked annoyingly. ‘Can you see all that dust?’ Dirk glanced at the piles of old newspapers and files from previous cases. ‘I can’t even see the floor,’ he replied, switching it off.
Cats, he thought. Why cats? In spi...te of what humans have written throughout history, dragons are and always have been vegetarians. Humans saw the big teeth, the sharp claws and the ability to breathe fire and assumed they were carnivores like themselves. In fact, eating meat was agony to dragons. It made their blood boil, like being cooked from the inside. If a dragon ate enough, its blood would turn to gas and it would die. Dirk didn’t like the sound of this at all, so tended to stick to cans of baked beans and self-toasted bread.MoreLess
Cats, he thought. Why cats? In spi...te of what humans have written throughout history, dragons are and always have been vegetarians. Humans saw the big teeth, the sharp claws and the ability to breathe fire and assumed they were carnivores like themselves. In fact, eating meat was agony to dragons. It made their blood boil, like being cooked from the inside. If a dragon ate enough, its blood would turn to gas and it would die. Dirk didn’t like the sound of this at all, so tended to stick to cans of baked beans and self-toasted bread.MoreLess
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