Grrr!! I WILL NIBBLE YOU!
“If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc_b-qE9gl8
MEET TIGGER
Christmas is a joyful time
especially when you have cats
I have eight and all of them
watch me wearing my silly hat
they play with all the boxes
they play with all the paper
but do they want the toys I bought
no they don't; what a caper
Harry hides beneath the tree
something caught his eye
a dangling little nutcracker soldier
Harry stalks him; wonders why
what he's doing in his house
looking straight at him
“I'll have you if you turn to run”
Harry says; paw up and then
a sudden breeze; the soldier moves
Harry is swift and swings a punch
“just as well I had some chicken”
he licks his lips and thinks of lunch
Harry is autistic
every day is new to him
everything even things most familiar
are strange and scary and on a whim
he pounces on something unexpected
something only he can see
he remembers some things better than others
and I'm glad he always remembers me
when he was just a tiny kitten
well he's not much bigger now
the vet thought that he would be blinded
but I didn't agree and I knew somehow
as he scurried about like a little mouse
with so much energy and love to give
the vet said it would have been kinder to leave him
to end his life; not let him live
he was born with a shot jaw; it was hard to eat
and his mother; another stray; had abandoned him
together with his sister Chloe
who had the same problems and more within
well, I never went back to that vet again
I took them both somewhere else
a second opinion was all they needed
and love and care to restore their health
they had not learned to wash themselves
so I washed them in the Butler's sink
eyedrops for Harry to clear a bad infection
Bubbles decided to brave the stink
he became the mother they barely knew
he still curls up with them now
they burrow their heads into his warm fur
they make me smile; they make me vow
to keep them safe and free from harm
to love them all their lives
to give to them all I have to give
to make sure that they live and thrive
I carry them around like little babies
these two little mites who showed such fight
they are so loving; so sweet and small
I reassure them every day and night
they never will be very big
but they are big in other ways
big the love they give to me
big the joy they bring my days.
Their shot jaws corrected themselves over time so that now you don't really notice and they both have very healthy appetites! : 0)
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Grrr!! I WILL NIBBLE YOU!
“If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc_b-qE9gl8
MEET TIGGER
Christmas is a joyful time
especially when you have cats
I have eight and all of them
watch me wearing my silly hat
they play with all the boxes
they play with all the paper
but do they want the toys I bought
no they don't; what a caper
Harry hides beneath the tree
something caught his eye
a dangling little nutcracker soldier
Harry stalks him; wonders why
what he's doing in his house
looking straight at him
“I'll have you if you turn to run”
Harry says; paw up and then
a sudden breeze; the soldier moves
Harry is swift and swings a punch
“just as well I had some chicken”
he licks his lips and thinks of lunch
Harry is autistic
every day is new to him
everything even things most familiar
are strange and scary and on a whim
he pounces on something unexpected
something only he can see
he remembers some things better than others
and I'm glad he always remembers me
when he was just a tiny kitten
well he's not much bigger now
the vet thought that he would be blinded
but I didn't agree and I knew somehow
as he scurried about like a little mouse
with so much energy and love to give
the vet said it would have been kinder to leave him
to end his life; not let him live
he was born with a shot jaw; it was hard to eat
and his mother; another stray; had abandoned him
together with his sister Chloe
who had the same problems and more within
well, I never went back to that vet again
I took them both somewhere else
a second opinion was all they needed
and love and care to restore their health
they had not learned to wash themselves
so I washed them in the Butler's sink
eyedrops for Harry to clear a bad infection
Bubbles decided to brave the stink
he became the mother they barely knew
he still curls up with them now
they burrow their heads into his warm fur
they make me smile; they make me vow
to keep them safe and free from harm
to love them all their lives
to give to them all I have to give
to make sure that they live and thrive
I carry them around like little babies
these two little mites who showed such fight
they are so loving; so sweet and small
I reassure them every day and night
they never will be very big
but they are big in other ways
big the love they give to me
big the joy they bring my days.
Their shot jaws corrected themselves over time so that now you don't really notice and they both have very healthy appetites! : 0)
- AP - Copyright © remains with and is the intellectual property of the author
Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission