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- Killing rats
- Eating ratsHe was seriously wounded when some Chinese Communists shot him with a cannon a year later, but managed to drag himself from the captain's cabin out onto the deck where he was hurried off to the ship's medical bay for priority treatment. Having been through all that, earning a PDSA's Dickin Medal in the process, the poor bastard died in quarantine upon his return to the UK on the 28th of November 1949.Talents:
Pest control, low-level psychiatry, ability to survive gun attacks, sense of adventure.Weaknesses:
Relatively minor viral infections, cannons.A suitable friend for Paul?
May be too arrogant due to superior sea-faring experience. Rat tricks unlikely to impress octopus as octopuses are generally ignorant of what rats are.Wojtek the Soldier Bear (c. 1942 - 1963)

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Hedonism, carrying bullets.Weaknesses:
None, he is a bear with a human brain.Tama the Cat (c. 1999 - present)

Punctual, good people skills, ambitious.Weaknesses:
Could yet die horribly, too busy with career to start a family and thus legacy.OSCAR RICKETT