Cats
Submitted as a comment by SK
The Cat
You get a wife, you get a house,
Eventually you get a mouse.
You get some words regarding mice,
You get a kitty in a trice.
By two a.m. or thereabouts,
The mouse is in, the cat is out.
It dawns upon you, in your cot,
The mouse is silent, the cat is not.
Instead of kitty, says your spouse,
You should have got another mouse.
Ogden Nash
We started with 1 cat back in the mid 80’s and then through fate we had 10 at one time, for a few months, and now we’re down to just 2. It’ll probably stay that way, til there is just 1.
You could come in our house right now and never know a cat lived there. My wife is an absolute ogre when it comes to cat, ahem, maintenance. No smells, no tufts on the floor, no water or food bowls, nothing. And the cats themselves have no desire to meet you.
But, if you hang around for a couple hours, guess what? You’ll feel a cat doing figure 8’s around your legs if you’re standing up – or just rubbing on a leg if you’re sitting. If you keep ignoring it it will be on your lap. Might even walk it’s front legs right up ya and stare in your eyes through it’s squinty eyes, inquisitively.
People that say they don’t like cats, or dogs, are untrustworthy and you should keep them at arms distance or farther. Personally, I have no use for people like that.