I have this friend. He's kinda strange you see.
He spends a lot of his time, up in the trees.
He doesn't make a barking sound. I guess it's more
like a squeak.
One time he jumped on mom’s waterbed and made it
spring a leak.
This guy is always licking his self with his leg up in
the air.
There is no way possible his tongue isn’t full of
hair.
He is a cross between a cactus and furry like a baby
fox.
The weirdest thing about him is he poo poo's in a box!
The food they give him is delicious. It's better than
mine any day.
Usually they feed him outside to keep me out of the
way.
He has some really strange habits; there's one I don't
understand the most.
He pulls out these ten little switchblade knives and
sharpens them on a carpet covered post!
There's a sound he makes that drives me crazy; where
it comes from really baffles me.
He sounds like my mom's car when she starts it, but I
never have found his key.
Last night things got a bit crazy. My dad gave him
something called nip.
He turned 14 cartwheels down the hallway and ended
with a double back flip!!!
I just had to try some myself. It didn't do a thing
for me!
But make my eyes red and watery and then I started to
sneeze!
There's a secret I just have to tell you. While
everyone's asleep, we cuddle at night.
I really shouldn't be telling you this, because dogs
and cats are supposed to fight.
Mom said he is what's called a rescue. His family had
to give him away.
Even though we don’t always get along, I'm glad mom
brought him home that day.
I wish everyone was like my mom. A huge heart of gold
has she.
If we would ALL think of others instead of ourselves,
what a wonderful world this would be!
(Jerry Wayne
Baldwin; from “This K-9 of Mine”)
*****
The book
“This K-9 of Mine: Poetic short stories from a dog's point of view, plus a few
from the owner's vantage point, too.” is available as Kindle version here.
No comments:
Post a Comment