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Fup. Store Cat.

Chapter 83

In Loving Memory
Fup. Store Cat.
1988 — 2007
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The cats all have spring fever. Nearly sixty degrees it's been, four days in a row, sunny from morning till night. Weird. Flowers are blooming, the puddles have gone away. People, all of a sudden, are breaking out in sneezing fits.

Up into an elm Bagheera goes racing — a week ago he never would have approached at that speed, but the bark has lost its shine; you can dig your claws in and rocket straight up the trunk.

"Ahhhh!" the others hear him scream. They follow his trail into the branches just as his small, black body comes hurling back out.

"Falcon!" Bagheera shouts, but behind them by the time he issues the warning, hiding stock-still under a station wagon at the curb.

"What the...?" Oreo asks.

"Where?" Fup murmurs.

"Oh." Bear sees it first.

"What say we back away, slowly?"

"I could take it," Bear says. "It's not that big."

A day or two of clouds, that's all they need, for pulses to soften and the mania to recede, for moods to hedge back closer to winter.

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"All these cats lead exciting and varied lives wholly independent of the human race," notes the editor in his Introduction. Well, duh. Scant attention has been paid to the role of community in modern cat culture, so what a relief that here, finally, fifty articulate felines set the record straight. Funny, sad, occasionally shocking, but never less than true, these brave monologues reaffirm our interdependency in ways that choreographed public displays such as Paws Across America never can.

Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
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In "Dog Kibble," Tasha Baxter's verse exhibits a brutal economy of words: "Life is never meaningless," her villanelle announces, "there is always food." Here and throughout this collection these authors demand your attention, as if to bark, "You can send me to my room for yelling at the neighbors but you cannot silence what woofs in my heart!" Among the selections nominated for Best American Writing by Pets 2000 are Bob Barker Barry's sordid and hilarious hallucinogenic escapades with Lynda; a tragic, posthumous prose poem by Marrow Irving; and Sadie Louise Lamott's "Spoon River Sadie Louise," a wildly metered exploration of the cross-cultural dynamics within a household occupied by dogs, cats, birds, and small children. The sheer intellect of these collected pieces will renew your faith in dogs.

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