Cats make the purr-fect housemates for a great deal of family pet owners in Derbyshire.
They don’t require to be handled strolls, they don’t use up as much space as dogs and they are much more independent.
More than a quarter of families share their houses with a puss, amounting to a shocking 8 million cats throughout the nation.
On National Cat Day we asked our Facebook fans to publish images of their family pets – and a number of their stories left paw prints on our hearts.
There were owners who embraced rescue cats from the RSPCA and a touching appeal from Dawn Longden-Whiting asking individuals in Stonegravels, Chesterfield to watch out for Jazz who vanished 15 months back.