A Complication of House Pets

[akirlu]

As of tonight, I have decided that the most appropriate collective noun for an assemblage of miscellaneous house pets is "a complication". You can roll your own examples, I'm sure, but this evening when I let out the dogs for one final bio break before I go to bed, there was a very large, quite fresh but wholly dead rat lovingly laid out on the

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[billeyler]

Thanks for the 3am chuckle. :-)

[akirlu]

Hey, somebody has to get some benefit from my misadventures! And the lovely thing about pets as opposed to children is that they never do get old enough to start demanding that one stop writing stories about them on LJ.

[johncoxon]

I miss Shoobie! Sounds like he's still fearsome.

[akirlu]

Shoobie is fearsome as fuck, and he's happy to tell anyone who will listen (and who also speaks at least passable Shoobiese).

[athenais]

Dead rat keep-away! Oh, Shoobie.

Indeed, I think "complication" describes such a mixed species household as yours.

[akirlu]

Dead rat keep away, indeed. My mistake was in thinking that he wouldn't be interested because the rat was already dead. If it had been a live rodent I would have known I was in for it. That would be why I was in such a blind rush to get the live mole Tinka brought in to me back outside before Shoobie spotted it, because at that point, it would be a dead mole in a hurry.

[holyoutlaw]

You must remember that
A cat is but a cat
A dog is but a dog
The complicated things apply
As rats they die.

[akirlu]

Hah! That's really wonderful, Luke!

[kip_w]

Years ago I said that living with animals was like being in an animated cartoon.