I see what you did there, but this one was around the era of Mark Farrington, and was actually a small black and white job, not unlike that Felix fella off of the TV adverts.
Three cats, ever.
When I was a kid we had one called Dylan, after the character in The Magic Roundabout
Then as a teenager we had Harley (very loud purr, like an idling motorbike engine)
Then another one, called CAT. We argued for weeks over a name, by which time it answered to CAT, so it...