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- somali cat rescue, 4-5 years old, was 'probably dumped because someone got sick of listening to you', Jane says when she's angry. we don't like Jane when she's angry.
- full name: Copenhagen, but generally just referred to as Cope.
- indoor kitty, though Jane takes her outside on a leash sometimes. she hates it, thanks but no thanks.
- lives with her owner in a basement flat/gallery, so she functions as unofficial shop mascot and may attract more people than Jane's art.
- mainly thanks to Instagram, where Jane runs a profile for her. she's very photogenic.
- oh, and did we forgot to mention, she speaks Human.

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Cope, nickname for Copenhagen, is a cat who's owned, as much as any cat's owned by anyone, humans just like to pretend, by Jane the Human, a 29-year-old artist and self-empoyed gallery owner. She owns a shop in an old neighbourhood in Aarhus, located in the basement of the apartment building, with Jane and Cope living in the apartment above.

Jane used to live in Copenhagen, where she studied at the Art Academy and worked at an animal shelter on the side; this was where she met Cope for the first time, when the cat was just a half-grown kitten. It was a Somali-mix that had been delivered anonymously to the shelter and she was so anxious and aggressive towards people that the shelter manager saw no other way out but to have her put down. However, by chance, Jane discovered that Cope spoke Human and that was probably the reason she had been turned in. She decided to save the kitten, adopting her herself and over the next four years she became the most favourite person in Cope's life.

Three years after this point, Jane had finished school and moved to Aarhus to work a shop there. She spoke with and unquestioningly accepted that Cope could speak, but had made the cat promise never to do so in front of others, as she feared what they'd do to the cat as a result. So, these days, Cope only speaks to Jane, who's really the only one she wants to speak to anyway.

Being a very pretty and sweet young woman, Jane has waded through a lot of boyfriends and dates at this point, they're at 99 and counting - Cope being the one to do the counting, should you have any doubt, and Cope takes pride in scaring them all away without Jane knowing. However, when Jane meets guy no. 100, a professor in behaviourism at Aarhus University, she makes the mistake of talking to him, as she's talked to the men before him, who all thought they were going crazy. Karsten doesn't think so. He fully believes she can talk and is very interested in finding out how that's possible.

He kidnaps Cope, intending to perform some experiments on her, as behaviourists do, and hides her in his labs at university. Meanwhile, Jane starts a whole campaign to get Cope back and when it, by some miracle, ends happily with Cope returning to Jane's waiting, loving arms, they're both done with men for a good while to come.

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