In Competition No. 2910 you were invited to submit a poem by a pet who is cheesed off with its owner.

The contempt in Basil Ransome-Davies’s closing couplet, written from the perspective of a bolshie moggy, was echoed throughout the entry by a hacked-off parade of bullied, misunderstood and condescended-to pets:

He wants affection, he can kiss a duck.