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Youth
The narrator loved animals from his childhood, and had quite a lot of them. -
Adult
Even when he gets older, his love for animals keeps growing. He has many of them, and enjoys taking care of them. -
Married
He finds his love, a wife who also loves animals, and together they have many animals in their house. His favorite is their black cat, Pluto. -
Alcohol problems
He started having alcohol problems, which led to him physically and verbally abusing his wife and his pets. -
The end of Pluto
One night, the narrator comes home completely drunk. The cat bites him, and thinking the cat doesnt like him, he grabs the cat and cuts his eye out with a knife. In the morning he decides to hang the cat, even though he knows it is wrong. He hangs Pluto from a tree in his garden. -
Burning house
The night of the murder, their house mysteriously burns down. The day after, he returns to the house and finds a picture of a cat being hanged on his bedroom wall. -
Another black cat
One night after a heavy night drinking, he finds a black cat similar to Pluto, with an eye missing but with a white spot on its chest. He decides to bring the cat home with him, but soon after he starts disliking it. It follows him everywhere, and he can not even get a single nights rest. -
The end of ....
He despies the cat so much, that he wants to kill it. He brings it down in the basement with his wife, where he swings an axe at the cat, but misses and axe-identally hits his wife in the head - killing her. He hides the corpse in a wall, thinking no one will ever find it. -
Police pays a visit
Soon after, the police arrives at his house, questioning about his missing wife. They do not find anything, and while in the basement he brags about how well the house is built. He hits the wall with his cane, and to his surprise a noise answers his knock: like a cry or a baby, but inhumane. The police are on it and they open up the wall to see the body, with the cat sitting on top of her head.
