Juanita - It's Hot!

11:45P

This rhyme was written 05/04/97, a delightful memory of our kitty Juanita who didn't realize she was fourth in the pecking order at that time. She didn't care. She was always first in her own system, as were the other three first in their own systems. Happy days!

We already had three cats when our next door neighbor's employee brought this tiny kitten to our door one morning saying, "I know you love cats and wondered if you would take this little kitty who was wandering in the middle of the street out front just now. She's so cute, but I can't take her because I am moving to a new place which won't accept pets, and she's going to get killed out there." "We don't need another cat," I said, but took the baby into the office.

Someone working around our place that day said if we didn't want her, he would take her home and let her be an outdoor cat with a dozen others he fed. An ace in the hole. I showed her to Roy, telling him the circumstances and making it clear we didn't need another cat and that our workman would provide for her when he left for the day. Roy said okay, and I asked him if he wanted to baby-sit her until the workman went home that afternoon. Yes. I put the kitten on Roy's lap and left him with the wildly curly furred kitten.

I checked out the situation in the mid-afternoon. It was all over. Roy was sitting at his desk, Wall Street Journal in his hand as he posted the stocks he followed for the day, gingerly moving as he turned pages so as not to disturb the kitten on the back of his neck draped like a contour pillow, sound asleep. He said to me, completely serious, "You can keep her if you want to."

He named her Juanita for Juan Peron, but that's another story for another time.


Juanita

My kitty cat is tabby striped
in tan both dark and light.
Wild fur looks like she's been plugged in
a socket overnight.

No lap cat she, too wiggle-ee,
just full of energy.
She loves the outdoors when she isn't
under the settee.


Respectfully submitted,
Miss Peach