| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
| Moderator: | MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO |
| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5089 |
| Total number of notes: | 60366 |
Now hear this! You may live in this dwelling with me, but keep in mind
your sole purpose for existing is to care for me. I pray God keeps you
able to do so.
Feed me well and promptly, so that I may then find a quiet place to lie
down and stare at you. If that place happens to be on top of the
television set do not keep trying to dislodge me even though my tail
is hanging in the middle of the picture.
I expect full run of the premises, including the kitchen table. I
sniff your food only to see if I would prefer it to mine. Brush me
twice a week. Pet me as often as you wish, but I can do without the
idiotic statements you utter as you do so.
When I bump my head against your leg or cheek, it means I accept you as
part of my environment. Keep in mind that if I thought the lady next
door would feed me better, I'd be out of here in a minute. If you're
looking for loyalty, get a dog.
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| 4401.1 | YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT | WR1FOR::RUSSELLPE_ST | Tue Feb 19 1991 19:15 | 10 | |
I just called up my husband to read this "cat prayer" to him. He
laughed a lot but said, whoever wrote this never met Misty. She is
loyal and alway (almost) comes when I call her. But she does always check
out our food and always wants a taste, just to make sure it's OK. And
true she doen't like to be dislodged from wherever she sitting. I
guess in a lot of ways she is like that cat. I'm glad I now know my
purpose in life. ;-)
Steffi & 3M & L
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| 4401.2 | "The Cat's Prayer" | AYOV27::TWASON | Wed Feb 20 1991 06:11 | 48 | |
This is re-printed without permission from "Glorious Cats" - The
Paintings of Lesley Anne Ivory accompanied by extracts, poems etc by
many famous cat lovers.
This is a Cat that sleeps at night,
That takes delight
In visions bright,
And not a vagrant that creeps at night
On box-cars by the river,
This is a sleepy cat to purr
And rarely stir
Its shining fur;
This is a cat whose softest purr
Means salmon, steaks and liver.
That is a cat respectable,
Connectable,
With selectable
Feline families respectable,
Whose names would make you quiver.
That is a cat of piety,
Not satiety,
But sobriety.
Its very purr is of piety
And thanks to its Feline Giver.
And this how it prays:
'Ancient of days
With whiskers torrendous,
Hark to our praise,
Lick and defend us.
Lo, how we bring to Thee,
Sweet breasts of mouses;
Hark how we sing to Thee,
Filling all houses
With ardent miaouses,
Until it arouses
All mankind to battery.
Thou of the golden paws,
Thou of the silver claws,
Thy tail is the comets' cause,
King of all cattery!'
By Sinclair Lewis
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| 4401.3 | BooKs on Poems | SPCTRM::SECURITY | ACT POLICE AND STATE YOUR CODE | Thu Feb 21 1991 12:11 | 6 |
Can anyone direct me to a book of poems about cats. I know that
there is a note in here somewhere about all the literature on cats
but I'd like an abbreviated list of just poems and possibly( i know
i'm being pushy;) ) where to find them?
Lisa
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