Jennyanydots Jennyanydots Jennyanydots is a fictional character in the poem "The Old Gumbie Cat" from T. S. Eliot's collection "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", and the later musical play "Cats" based on it. She is described as being an old Gumbie cat. During the day, the family thinks she is lazy because she sits around doing nothing ("She sits, and sits, and sits, and sits. And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat...") but when they go to sleep, she goes to work, forcing the mice to learn music, crocheting, and tatting. She even thinks the cockroaches need employment to counter
The King of the Cats first cursing all mice, killing a dozen of them in shame, followed by the cats who should have kept the mice in check; in retaliation, the king of the cats, Irusan son of Arusan hunts Senchán down intending to kill him, but is in turn killed by St Kieran. This tale was reworked by Lady Jane Wilde as "Seanchan the Bard and the King of the Cats", published in her 1866 book "Ancient Legends of Ireland", and included in W. B. Yeats' 1892 book "Irish Fairy Tales". The second was retold as "When the King of the Cats Came to