El Nino is a random season for cats such as MauMau the compound cat.

When I was still living as a bachelor, perhaps 30 years ago, I had Persian, Siamese, and local cats. One of them, a great, big tabby, used to curl round the glowing hot stove whenever there was something cooking there. My sister Alice would get alarmed and think that its fur would burn, but it was very clever and simply wanted all that heat coursing through its bones.