Chapter 1

Most people don’t expect cats and dogs to get along. This is also something most cats and dogs have in common with each other. They don’t expect to get along very well with each other either. If you find a group of cats and dogs arguing loudly like, well, cats and dogs, you might want to try to find something they can agree on as fast as you can so that the noise of their arguing doesn’t give you a headache.

Try asking them if cats and dogs get along. Nearly all of them will say, ‘No way! Cats and dogs do not get along.’ Then tell them that they’re all agreeing with each other. This will likely shock them into silence, at least for a moment. 

But there was once a cat named Catvinkle and a dog named Ula who knew that cats and dogs can get along. In fact, they knew that sometimes a cat and a dog can be best friends. Catvinkle and Ula knew this because they, a cat and a dog, were best friends, living together and even sharing the same room. They even shared the same human, a charming and quite loving barber named Mr Sabatini. The three of them lived together in a charming house by a canal on a street that cats and dogs knew as Herring Street (even though humans got it wrong and called it Herengracht). 

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