the dog next door,
as for domestic cats they were known as Gyb – the short form of Gilbert – and that name was also popular for individual pet cats, meanwhile in France they were called Tibers or Tibert was generic name for domestic cat in France – Tibert the Cat was one of the characters in the Reynard the Fox animal fables, other names for cats included Mite, who prowled around Beaulieu Abbey in the 13th century, and Belaud, a grey cat belonging to Joachim du Bellay in the 16th century, so maybe my naming the dog next door Jake did somehow have a link to Medieval times, how strange.
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