Reminds me of my mates cat - it was literally scared sh*tless of everything. We used to have fun creeping up behind it and watching it run away dropping logs all over the floor.
Blaster Bates! I was listening to one of his records (2 hours of stand up recorded at a community hall in Shropshire somewhere) only last weekend. He was a contemporary of Fred Dibnah (or a little before him - not sure).