GLOSSARY OF CATS

For you dog people this really has nothing to do with the feline that wanders through your neighborhood driving your canine protector crazy by sitting all smug and in-your-face just out of reach on a fencepost or tree branch. This is more about the actual word CAT and how it randomly appears in our language.

For instance:

Cat … apult.  Perhaps wishful thinking on the part of the gardener who finds the neighbor’s cat using the peony patch as a litter-box … you know, wistful visions of a large slingshot and the cat in flight.

Cat … acomb. Which should have something to do with all that fur, but does not.

Cat … alog. An apt description of sleeping felines.

Cat … aract. obviously a derivative of wreck, as in the cat’s a wreck!

Cat … astrophy which rather speaks for itself.

And last but not least

Cat … alyst. The list goes on and on.

But note that all of this has nothing to do with preferring cats to dogs. I am nothing if not even handed, as I don’t prefer one over the other.

Dog … gerrel. Defined as verse or words that are badly written or expressed. Not unlike this post.

Dog … eared. Worn or battered with use. Old news but still …

Dog … ged. Having tenacity and grim persistence.

Dog … ma. My mother really did prefer dogs to cats.

But the real point of all this is that it is much easier to draw cats than dogs.