Close to Home by John McPherson for September 16, 2024

Pawshake Redemption

Muffin is a Gumby Cat!

You don’t waste good food… they will be cat shish-kabob.

Squeak ah, squeak, I hear something saying,

Squeak ah, squeak ah

Squeak ah, squeak ah

Well don’t you know

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang.

(With apologies to Sam Cooke.)

yea but what about CATpital punishment

Muffin loves a neat meece chain gang!

Hoh ah, hoh, I hear something saying

Hoh ah, hoh ah

Uh ah, uh ah

Well don’t you know

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang

\All day long they’re saying, huh ah

Huh ah, uh ah, uh ah

Well don’t you know

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang

All day long they work so hard

Till the sun is going down

Working on the highways and byways

And wearing, wearing a frown

You hear them moaning their lives away

Then you hear somebody say;

Well don’t you know

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang

Can’t you hear them singing, mmm huh hah

I’m going home one of these days huh hah

I’m going home, see my woman huh hah

Whom I love so dear

But meanwhile, I gotta work right here huh hah

Well don’t you know

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang

That’s the sound of the mice

Working on the chain gang

All day long they’re singing, mm huh ah

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my work is so hard huh ah

Gimme water, I’m thirsty, my, my work is so hard huh ah

Woah oh, y, my, my, my, my, my, my

My work is so hard huh ah

“What we have heah… is a failyuh to communicate.”

Mice as slaves…

It’s good to see that Bleeb is not part of the chain gang. He’s about the right size.

The cat’s making sure they’re on their pest behavior.

That’s because Muffin gets Fancy Feast, regularly

Liberal cat.

The long gray line. Translated for Common Tater: long grey line.

But he believes in slave labor.

I suspect. Muffin prefers terror, torture, and misery…

Long hours working in the cat nip fields, no doubt.

What about hunger?

Cute! I like it! :-)

Another Muffin.