Last week we got the news that a neighbour had died. In conversation with another neighbour we decided to attend the funeral together. It wasn’t in Edinburgh so I was glad of the offer of a lift, and she was glad of a navigator on a strange route. She is knowledgeable about pets in the area and I hoped she might help me with the rainbow jacket conundrum but she couldn’t think of who the owner might be. On the morning of the funeral I saw a man in a nearby garden with a small dog and went to ask him if his dog was missing a rainbow coat. No it wasn’t theirs but then he remembered that someone with a cat had said they had mislaid a coat and he knew where she lived, so took it off me. I am very pleased they are to be reunited, and it now makes more sense that, while I had assumed it was a dog’s coat, it seemed to have cat hairs on it. I am hoping she is able to repair the damage, since he thinks she had made it herself. She will have time as no coat will be needed for a while in this weather.