 Growltiger's Last Stand

Growltiger is a fictional character appearing in both T. S. Elliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" which is based on Eliot's book.He is described as a "bravo cat who lived upon a barge", one who scoured the Thames from Gravesend to Oxford, terrorizing the inhabitants along the river, including "cottagers", canaries, geese, hens, "pampered Pekinese", and the "bristly Bandicoot that lurks on foreign ships".