The sometimes tragic, sometimes wacky bestiary 'Osbert & other stories' by Christopher presents a gallery of animals endowed with speech and a keen sense of observation: a very ironic rodent, a refined gentlecat, a bulldog working for the British secret services , an apartment-bear and a sparrow called Deux Magots . From Paris to London, via Oxford and Brussels, these animals help us to understand the peculiar species known as the pet humans.