It should, its manufacturers hope, be able to distinguish a cat from a cat burglar, or detect barely breathing bodies under several metres of rubble after an earthquake.

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There was a stack of a hundred and forty-nine Bollywood posters that he had bought in Mumbai, and a Christian Louboutin Cat Burglar Barbie, wearing a black latex catsuit and many-buckled sandals.

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Inspired by classic film noir pictures, "A Cat in Paris" tells the story of Dino, a house cat by day and a burglar's accomplice by night.

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