The Squad
by carolynholm
Dear Mom,
Everyone has been wanting my food.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
No one wants your food, sweetie. The cats are just walking past it because your feeder is next to the kitchen door.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
Puffin comes over and sniffs it.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
He’s just checking it out. You don’t need to lunge and bark at him.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
I need to bark at him, to tell him how I feel. But it’s ok, he doesn’t care. He just walks away.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
He knows you are harmless. After all, we’re all one pack of five here, and you and the cats are The Squad!
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
I love it that we’re The Squad! Winston and I walk around shoulder to shoulder just to show our Squad solidarity. Puffin shows solidarity with a sniff or a head bump. Sometimes. Because other times he’s grumpy.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
That’s just when he’s hungry. He gets testy then. There’s a word for it: Hangry.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
But he’s in a much better mood lately, now that he’s feeling better. When he was sick, he was very gloomy. We were all worried about him.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
He’s just fine now, isn’t he! Who knows what on earth that cat ate that messed up his gut, but it was an expensive experiment, whatever it was. I can’t believe he got X-rays and blood work, and all he needed to do was an enormous poop. But we’re glad he’s fine now. And I’m sure he appreciated that the Squad was concerned about him.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
Winston bumped heads with him a lot to let him know that we were thinking about him. And I sniffed his butt.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
It must have been comforting to him to know you had his back.
Love, Carolyn
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