As part of the August Writing project I’ve been writing poetry each day — some long, some short, some freestyle, some with personally chosen challenges like exactly ten syllables per line, and so forth. (And no, you won’t find them, because they’re all community-locked.) The past two days I have written deliberately bad haiku about Cricket being in heat and yearning for the boy cat love, because it amuses me.
The Baron has taken this and run with it. This is “a Cramps kinda stomper”, as he puts it, raw and raunchy, which incorporates some of the lines and phrases I wrote in the haiku. You can practically hear the grinding punk music thrashing away in your mind as you read the lyrics.
Haiku is an artful gift I’m without
My poetry is somber dirge weeping
From my fingertips like sorrowful ink
Alas, it is contagious to share
Excuse me for asking the obvivious here, but why don’t you either get her spayed or get her laid (if you want to have kittens around)? Why put all concerned through such misery???
My gods… the song is funny. I hope they play it at the next concert!
The cost, Bev. We haven’t had three hundred dollars free to spay the kittens. And it’s not misery; our two get cuddly, is all. The plan is to do it sometime this fall through Vanier.
It is only appropriate that Cricket get a song, since she’s kept you up so many times with her own “singing”.
My god! It costs $300 to spay a cat these days! I had no idea. Did I actually pay that much six years ago to have my female cat spayed? I can’t remember. I think I’ll phone my vet and ask the cost; maybe it’s lower at Westmount animal hospital, although I doubt it, given that it’s in Westmount.
I phoned, and at the Animal Hospital of Westmount on Victoria in Westmount, the price quoted was $125 plus another $25 for anti-inflammatories, extre meds, etc. Don’t know if this will help your situation. Were you thinking of spaying more than one cat? You’ve only mentioned Cricket in your blogs.
$125 plus extras is basically what I’ve been quoted here and about as well. But I have two kittens, Bev; there’s Cricket, and Nixie, our little black one. Which brings the total cost with tax etc to around $300. This is why we’ll be trying to get it done through the Vanier animal tech program this fall.
It was very kind of you to take the time and call your vet; I appreciate it.