Jasper is poorly
I’ve got a dread notion that my idea, espoused about a month ago, that there’s an unneutered tom spreading FIV in our locality, might be true. Jasper, one of our twin two-year-old black-and-white boys, has runny eyes and is very down in the dumps right now. If he doesn’t improve over the next few days I’ll be taking him to get the FIV test at the vet’s, and if he turns out to be positive it opens up a lot of questions—one being whether we can keep all our cats in from now on. I honestly don’t think it’s possible. Some never get into clashes with other cats; some do. All are used to having the freedom to come and go as they please.
tags: animals, cats, FIV, Jasper, MandrakePoem: Sleeping Cat
Sleep as birthright belongs to cat not man,
for man can never look so sweet as cat,
sprawled out in dreams of mice not men,
and yet again provoked,
each day at time the same,
by noise of shopping bag or tin,
the cat jumps up – alive again! -
and makes such caterwauling din
the neighbours think against him you must sin
but all you do is serve as slave not master.
Now put the food into his bowl. And do it faster!
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