Recently, I was paying for a box of live crickets at PetsMart, and had this conversation with the cashier:
Cashier: Would you like to donate $1 to homeless pets?
Me: What would a homeless pet do with $1?
Cashier: Probably buy food and things.
Me: If it's homeless, is it a pet? Isn't that a feral animal? Should we trust feral animals with money? Won't they buy drugs?
Cashier (handing me change and cutting me off): Ok, well, thanks for shopping at PetsMart!
I regret my smart alecky-ness; sometimes I should not think out loud, I guess. Thinking more clearly about it, I doubt that PetsMart gives the money directly to the "homeless pets."
At any rate, let's haiku about pets and other animals today… here, I will go first:
My cricket-eater
Is Ash the Lizard; Found out
They live to thirty.
Now it is your turn! Just use the 5/7/5 syllable formula, and have some fun! (I am especially curious to learn more about the Medievalist's pet, which I think is a kangaroo or something).
My old old doggie
ReplyDeleteWatches birds so intently
Mystery of flight?
I'm a homeless pet
ReplyDeleteSad eyes, hiding and furtive
Searching… love and food.
The good Prof exposed:
ReplyDeleteCaved to seven year old's pleas
Buys LOTS of crickets!
Jeffrey the gerbil,
ReplyDeleteHe ate lots of celery,
Big feet, great jumper.
Lily Belle can jump
ReplyDeletejust like on a trampoline
four paws off the floor
FOR THE LOVE OF ROMEO
ReplyDeleteMisgiving mornings
I wake and hold him, Snuffling
Pufferbelly...My couage comes.
Born knowing how to
Love,dogs' time here is short. There
Is not much for them
To learn here. Kiss,wag
Kiss,a few treats,snooze,dinner,wag,
Chew toy,chase ball.Kiss.
Tony had issues.
ReplyDeleteHe could not bear separation.
Yowl he did when I
Back from sojourns
To Amsterdam or London.
He would eat cashmere
For revenge.Sweaters,
Blankets. Then was put on Zoloft--
Separation Anxiety.
Still I loved him. I
Was he an old love reincarnate?
Asthma inhaler
Like champagne by my
Bedside. There was the morning I
Woke...wet spot on leg.Divorce.