My call of the wild
silenced by walls
where spoiling
has reduced my voice
to a pampered purr.
I stalk a cloth bird
filled with inedible
shaming instinct
with artificial.
Bored with domesticity
I rake my claws on any surface
to sharpen frustration,
and stare at freedom
beyond dusty glass.
©Susie Clevenger 2013
I have two loved and spoiled cats. I rescued the male cat, Bindi Lu, from right outside my door when a neighbor moved away and abandoned it. The female, Neytiri, I adopted from an organization that rescues cats. When I see them looking out the window, I imagined them to have thoughts at times where they wish they could run away. Well, at least until the next meal. :)
I have two loved and spoiled cats. I rescued the male cat, Bindi Lu, from right outside my door when a neighbor moved away and abandoned it. The female, Neytiri, I adopted from an organization that rescues cats. When I see them looking out the window, I imagined them to have thoughts at times where they wish they could run away. Well, at least until the next meal. :)
Peggy over at Real Toads has doing animal talk. :)
Comments
That was the best thing that happened to her. She showed her gratitude by bringing us dead snakes and rodents she would kill out in the trees. I am glad we did not declaw her, we wouldn't.
I made a YouTube video of me playing at our Guatemala hotel with a caged monkey. Several comments were negative about him being captive. The cage was large and was placed in the garden in back of the hotel.
At the animal preserves the animals are quite one rescued from injury or sickness and brought back to health. But many then would not be able to survive if turned loose out in the wild. Those that can are released. I am thinking Alaska and Tasmania of which I have knowledge.
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K
I actually think those that say DON't declaw DON"T keep in side the house are going a bit too far - as they just doomed so many cats to horrible lives or death.