A Father's Pride

eyedclaar

A Father's Pride

Found him under
The neighbor’s hedge
Dignified and
Waiting for death

Figured the bones
Sticking out of his back leg
Were his biggest concern

Peeled his body
From the frozen earth
And held him until nurses
Carefully removed my fingers
And took him
Into a back room

The doctor told me
His pelvis was crushed
Eight
Or nine serious fractures

His odds were about even

Chances
I wouldn’t have believed
After the seeing the x-rays

Almost convinced myself
Making him live
Was the worst thing
I had ever done

He hated me for months
Hated the medicine
Hated pulling himself
From room to room
With front claws

His indifference to life
Became a mission
For revenge
And because
He was my boy
I knew full well
That would carry him
Through several more lives

chadwick

what sorta animal we takin 'bout here?

eyedclaar

chadwick wrote:

what sorta animal we takin 'bout here?

You know I like to make the reader work a bit. There are three clues:

1. The Title

2. Hated pulling himself
From room to room
With front claws

3. That would carry him
Through several more lives

chadwick

i wanna say wolf but i dunno

eyedclaar

chadwick wrote:

i wanna say wolf but i dunno

Alright...

Cats live in prides, have claws, and have multiple lives.

It was my old flame-point siamese. Most badass cat that ever lived. His name was Loki.

chadwick

eyedclaar wrote:

chadwick wrote:

i wanna say wolf but i dunno

Alright...

Cats live in prides, have claws, and have multiple lives.

It was my old flame-point siamese. Most badass cat that ever lived. His name was Loki.

i thought so.
pride gave it away.
and the toughness of the animal.

what is a flame-point siamese exactly?
pictures?

eyedclaar

I have no idea how to post pics on here or I would find one for ya'. Basically it is a white siamese with orange highlights around the face and faint orange rings around the tail.

chadwick

eyedclaar wrote:

I have no idea how to post pics on here or I would find one for ya'. Basically it is a white siamese with orange highlights around the face and faint orange rings around the tail.

very nice.
yeah im not very computer savvy either.

acrossssSsssshittt

i feel your loss... God be with him

eyedclaar

acrossOceans wrote:

i feel your loss... God be with him

Thanks. He recovered from those injuries, most of the way, and lived for several more years. I wrote that years ago.