Excericse #5: A Recipe Poem

Recipe For Keeping a Cat

Ingredients:

Shelter with one or more rooms
Cat food
Bowls for food and water
Litter box
Windows with blinds and large sills
At least one extra soft blanket or throw
Couch
Bed
Newspaper
Cardboard box
Flip-flops

Instructions:

Invite the cat into your shelter. Provide her with the two bowls one filled with water and the other filled with food. Change the water daily. Every time the end of the bowl is visible, refill the bowl with food. Scoop out the litter box daily. The cat will wait until you have freshly scooped it to use it again, so be sure to follow her schedule on this. Lay the soft blanket on the bed for the cat to sleep on. Keep the cats' nails sharp and long so that she can enjoy scratching the couch until the wooden interior is exposed. When eating breakfast, be sure to pick up the newspaper and read it so that the cat can come and lay down on it on the table while you are trying to read. Be sure to give the cat  your leftover milk in the cereal bowl while she is laying on the newspaper. Keep window blinds open during the day so that the cat can sit on the sill and look outside. It is preferable at times to closet he blinds, however, so that the cat can stick her head in and eventually birth her way through the blinds to get to the window. Rotate the blinds up and down so she can have both experiences. Finally, leave your flip-flops out overnight so that the cat can enjoy gnawing on them. You will pleasantly wake up to see the teeth marks she has left for you. If you read them left to right they will reveal a special message she has created expressing her true love for you.

If you follow these directions and pet and love your cat daily, you will be a successful pet owner.