Photo: my wife’s cat – a Rag Doll called Misty.
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.” Garrison Keillor
Shadows along the wall
imperceptibly moves the curtain
furtive, secretive gambit
of a resident ghost,
a collection of bugs,
how did they congress there?
Mat askew and a clump of hair
on my folded trousers,
under the bed
glinting eyes eerily stare,
then darkness.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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I love cats and Misty looks like a really laid back one!
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Oh indeed Janet, a typical rag doll, sleeps and rests a lot, slothful 🙂
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That ghost called misty is so cute!!
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She has even won me over with her cuteness.
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Another human fallen 😉
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Lol, yes, I have indeed.
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I love them too 😀
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Another willing victim 🙂
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Absolutely!! 🐱🐶
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🙂
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Beautiful cat! I laughed at the clump of hair on folded trousers! My son and his wife have three cats and one is a rag doll Rumple. Hair everywhere!
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Oceans of hair! Glad it made you laugh 🙂
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I love dogs but cats, well … lol. That line definitely resonated 😀
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Lol, last week the cat hair blocked up the vac, at first I couldn’t figure it out, then I took the hose off and bingo.
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Haha I totally get it! VCs are a standard item on the Christmas gift list for both my kids!
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Good grief, that’s hard core.
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What a gorgeous cat Misty is! Spot on with the ‘catitude’ though.
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Ha, yes indeed, this cat is a ninja, thanks Chris 🙂
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What an adorable cat!
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She sure is Winnie 🙂
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🙂🙂
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♥♥♥
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🙂
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Yep, Misty knows how to relax!
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That Rag Doll specialty pure meditation
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Cat’s been there Paul… 🙂
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Oh definitely Rob 🙂
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Misty is lovely! 🙂 🐱
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She has become a part of the family and indeed loved as she is lovely.
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Ah, I really like the movement, as it occurs, at the beginning — it’s wonderful how you talk about the hairballs and the skewed mats.
Misty is absolutely gorgeous. 🙂
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The rest of the family would agree with you, I’m a little ambivalent, but she has got under my skin 🙂 many thanks Anmol.
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With those soft padded feet they really can move about like ghosts!
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They sure do, she will suddenly appear and startle us.
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Resident ghost and those eyes in the darkness… perfectly feline.
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Absolutely, yes, perfectly feline.
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Nice post
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The cat as poltergeist. They are strange creatures, even the slothful ones. You’re lucky it’s only bugs in corners. Half-eaten rodents under the bed is worse.
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This one didn’t know what to do with a mouse, she played with it all day then let it go, so no half eaten ones thankfully 🙂
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We have one that only hunts cobwebs and is terrified of wild things, but the other lady has stopped bringing her catches inside to eat. She’s made herself sick stuffing on rodents. I know when she’s already eaten a few when she brings us one and lets me take it away from her. The dead ones I leave out for the fox, but sometimes they’re unharmed and run away. Occasionally one fights back. Little heroes.
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Ah the difference is amazing.
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No two alike.
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Yes, so very different.
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indeed the ghosts from beyond …
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😉
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Do you have a taste for hair balls, Paul? Misty is adorable.
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Absolutely not, and we have a truce 🙂 even though she is adorable.
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Fabulous poem…and I’m not a cat fancier (nor pets of any kind, I don’t discriminate) 🙂
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I’m no longer pet mad, I was when I was younger, but now, all the work and time 🙂
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And expense 🙂
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Oh yes 🙂
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🙂
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🙂 Cat have humans always in their mind. Lol Michael
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Sorry for the missing “s” (Cats).
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🙂
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Lol
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😀
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What a gorgeous cat! I love cats and we have a 17-year-old Himalayan that rules the roost,
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They sure do have their ways Eugenia.
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You have truly captured an essence of catnature.
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Thank you so much LuAnne 🙂
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Ahh.. I know what you mean. I have 3 cats who stalks my every move.
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They know everything 🙂
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I always thought that
Pugs would take the cake!
Some hybrids would be
in big trouble
if ever they returned
to the primal jungle 😎
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That is so very true, Rag Dolls come with a warning that they cannot survive outdoors. Love your lines David, thank you for the rejoinder.
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No feline profiling, Paul.
I did almost buy a Rag Doll kitten
for the kids. But then I decided the
poor thing would be defenceless
against my brood of psychopaths 😎
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They are so aloof and independent they hate interaction.
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Such a well captured reality of our Misty and yes in deed a ghost floating through the house – but such a beautiful one
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Thought you’d appreciate this one, many thanks.
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They can be sneaky little buggers, fast as lightning, and impish in their tricks. Great poem, and Misty has mischief in her eyes. That seeming inertness is just a clever disguise.
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You got it, that’s so true.
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