This is my bad one. Sitting with a wild stare in her eye as she’s been carrying her latest kill around the house while yowling. Loudly. Happily for me, my cat limits her kill to objects that are inanimate. Tunisian slippers, animal keyrings, the mouse from The Gruffalo and now this ghastly small doll that came free with a magazine. All items belong to my daughter, so it’s likely the cat is trying to send a message of some kind. Who knows. My point in telling you about it is that I just discovered – thanks as ever to Jo Waterhouse – All the Bad Cats, an artistic and perhaps therapeutic venture by Matt Timms who promises “I will paint a brutally honest portrait of your cat being bad.”

What a delicious idea, that I’d put in my ‘business ideas I wish I’d had first’ file if I could only draw. Here are a few of Matt’s creations from his instagram page.

A lot of them look either very grumpy, overly cheerful or quite fearful rather than downright bad, but perhaps they’ve just committed a heinous crime that their owners failed to capture on camera when it was in the making. Want to know what Pushkin did? Matt doesn’t give much away, stating only “we need to establish boundaries Pushkin.”

Monkey Man’s owner does seems to have been on the case when action hit. His neighbours apparently called the police again.

Leaving you with Townes and his self-explanatory crime. His kill is a lot more real than my own cat’s though he’s wearing more of a ‘what you gonna do about it?’ look on his face than my anxious companion ever does.