Tolerant Creature

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I often have conversations with my dog

A talkative creature he is not silent like a log

Yes my canine companion speaks to me

It’s true I swear I am not barking up the wrong tree

To you, dear friends, a talking dog may sound

Wonderful but to have but an opinionated hound

Who only lectures you can be a bit frustrating

All chatter can even be, I daresay irritating.

So my dog turns to me the other day

And says, I feel we should get a cat to stay

With us in our house as we seem to lack

A creature to stop mice in their track.

I seem to recall from the last time I said

Shuddering as I recalled the past with dread

Did you not have a problem with the last cat?

Whose food you plundered and turned fat.

Fat! That sir is a heinous lie said the dog

I may be mildly plump but I am not a hog

I just happen to think cat food is really yum

The cheap stuff you give me I dislike every crumb.

If we got one, with it you would never socialise

You never get together, that is a truth I recognise

Will you get it to chase and bite postmen?

If it brings you a mouse, what happens then?

I expected that would have been the end

Of the argument with my faithful friend

But he replied taking my words as a bait

His need for the last word is always great

It’s a fallacy to think Cats wont accept dogs

Adapting to their culture is easy as rolling logs

If some tolerance to their value system I show

Why I am the most unprejudiced animal I know

My life was simple but now it's complex

But I really can’t recall what he said next

You fell fast asleep he did later lament

I said listening to pious homilies has that effect

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Today it should T for Tardy but instead is 'T' for 'Tolerant Creatures'.  

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