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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397414" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A meerkat in the lounge</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With great speed a thing runs<br>into the lounge<br>and braids past a bookcase<br>with aunt Leen behind it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> “Your cats are too useless<br>to catch the rats, ”<br>she says without breath</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but they are chased out, <br>having to stay outside<br>and one sleeps at night<br>in a room at the garage<br>and the other I smuggle <br>into my study, my bedroom<br>and of this fact till now <br>she luckily bares no knowledge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I go and fetch the black and white housecat Felix<br>from the outside, <br>who is a great mouse hunter, <br>but he isn’t interested and walks out<br>and this makes her angrier still<br>and I find it very amusing<br>and start to wonder<br>what kind of beast we are dealing with<br>that is now hiding behind the bookcase? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I get the striped ginger Persian cat Musso, <br>who sometimes brings big grasshoppers, mice, <br>rats, lizards, birds and even snakes <br>as tokens of love<br>to get a turn<br>and he sniffs around at the bookcase<br>but although he is curious<br>he doesn’t want to fetch the thing<br>that is hiding there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I carry him to one side<br>to stop it or to catch it <br>when it passes<br>and stir behind the bookcase with a broom<br>to drive it out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A big adult meerkat<br>runs out with speed<br>and the cat goes for it<br>and jumps with arched back<br>and swishing paws</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but like a big acrobat<br>that meerkat leaps right over the cat <br>and runs to the back of the organ<br>and the cat is angry, <br>but also anxious<br>as this thing<br>is dangerous for him<br>and he doesn’t regard it as prey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When my aunt goes to another room<br>I get the two dogs, sneaking them in<br>as I am afraid <br>that the meerkat has rabies<br>and maybe it will bite me<br>and I move some of the furniture<br>for them to chase it out<br>or to be able to corner it somewhere, <br>if it doesn’t want to leave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jeanie the brown Labrador growls<br>and regards this as a great game<br>and Sasja <br>the smaller golden Cocker Spaniel <br>tries to get her turn<br>and they chase it to and fro</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and Sasja bites at it and it bites back<br>and I have to protect the furniture from them<br>and fortunately the three of them run out<br>and the dogs want to mangle it<br>but the meerkat disappears into a hole<br>and the dogs growls and howls<br>and comes back later to report with waving tails</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and at that moment<br>my aunt returns to the lounge<br>with her tongue hitting like a whip<br>stating that dogs<br>are not allowed in the house<br>and asking if I am too incapacitated to catch a rat? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know that she is half deaf<br>and wonder <br>if she is turning blind as well<br>as her rat, is certainly a meerkat<br>and nothing else<br>and now she even calls it a skunk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Reference: Meerkat is a small animal similar to a suricate.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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she says without breath

but they are chased out, 
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