Hello fellow-bloggers, precious readers – today I thought I’d go fun and light-hearted and post my response to an old (very old!) Daily Post Word prompt.
I hope you enjoy reading.
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Daily Post Word Prompt: “I’d like to thank my cats.”
What a weird prompt! What a weird idea.
Part I
Cats are notoriously selfish and are not like dogs. They do not return your love. They will not protect you (ordinarily), although as I write this, I recall some news story of the recent past where a cat protected a young boy. I don’t recall the details – just that it happened.
But it seems bizarre to me that someone would even say such a thing. Is this jest? Can you imagine someone accepting a Grammy award (or some such other award) and turning to the audience to say: I’d like to thank my cat?
Could we take such a person seriously? Would anyone, apart from a member of CAMHS, (Cats Are My Heroes Society), take that person seriously?
Now, I am trying to imagine what you could possibly be thanking a cat for?
For being a valuable feature in your life?
For encouraging you when you were down?
For pushing you towards your purpose when you so wanted to give up?
For what, or why on earth would someone want to thank their cat? Beats me!
Well, if I really stretched my imagination, I suppose a business magnate who’d become a billionaire as a cat food manufacturer, might be grateful that the hundreds of recipes tried out on his poor moggy finally turned up trumps. I can’t think of any more justifiable reasons at the moment but I am sure if I were to continue to exercise my grey cells, continue to brainstorm, I could come up with a feasible explanation.
I would like to thank my cat.
Hmm No! No further inspiration at the moment.
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Part II
Wait! Hold up! (Light bulb moment!)
I would like to thank my cat.
You know, this could actually be the genuine response of a grateful actor or cast member from the musical CATS. Someone for whom Tiddles’s tutoring and mentoring has not only informed their acting prowess but also transferred into indispensable life skills. Yeah. I say, give honour to whom honour is due!
How else have said actors honed their ability to purr with contentment over their capacious container, crammed with cream and crowned with smug success?
Or how else could they have learned to stalk past their gainsayers and naysayers, dismiss lowly plebs with snooty disdain, or pounce without mercy upon unsuspecting rivals with the cunning skill and killer instinct of a haunched-down-low moggie stalking a squirrel, or hunting oblivious prey? Yeah! That’s most likely it.
My friend, if someone had told me that I could relate to a person who chose to thank their cat during an award ceremony, I would have said: Sodom & Gomorrah! I’d have thought: unthinkable – you’ve me got sooo wrong!
But now… from between the start and finish of this post, I’ve had a complete change of heart. I can actually see it now. I can believe it too. And, I’d have absolutely no problem with it!
Go actor, go!
Go accept your award and go thank your cat!
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https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/id-like-to-thank-my-cats
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