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Saturday 27 March 2021

Don't Ever Have A Cat

Don’t Ever Have A Cat 

Don’t ever have a cat!

But why do I say that?

Well the reasons are really quite plain

Assuming that you’d like to remain sane

For they live their lives in their own way

And though sometimes they like to play

Or weave round your legs when they want feeding

(Or for anything else that they’re needing)

And they’ll sit on your lap and they’ll purr

And they’ll let you fondle their soft fur

I’m afraid I have to tell you this straight

They have some less appealing traits

Like when they wander off from the house

And come back dragging a mouse

Or sometimes it’s a shrew

Which they torment and they chew

And there’s nothing you can do

Or the bloody, headless rabbit on the mat

That’s what you get with a cat

Or else they come and collapse on the floor

After fighting the tom from next door

 

They don’t take up too much space

And you get used to having them about the place

But then one day they get into a mood

Fall ill, and go right off their food

Then there’s the long trips to the vet

With a feline that’s what you get

Before you know it they’re just wasting away

And finally they pass on one terrible day

It’s only then that you realise to your cost

Just how much you’ve lost

How you miss them being around

And their particular sound

How their affection had crept into your heart

How your world’s been torn apart

How the sense of loss can steal

All of the love you’d started to feel

It’s not worth it to have all of that

So don’t ever have a cat

 

 Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2021

 

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