Puck the Kitty!

Cat Photography by John Dyer

This is my cat, Puck ! He and I have profound discussions.

This morning, April 4, 2004, most of the country changed their clocks ahead an hour to daylight saving time. I told Puck about this. He reflected as to how irrelevant it was to him. I told him much the same thing, that I was not governed by some little device with numbers scurrying by.

He looked at me, knowing I lie. He settled in by my computer mouse, rolled onto his back, and allowed me to scritch his head and ears like he likes. I felt good because he purred. I stopped, so whilst he was on his back anyway, he washed his butt. You can never have too clean a butt when that's the first thing your contemporaries will sniff.

Then, he looked up at the clock, jumped down off the desk and left...