Buddy

Buddy is the one with his head stuck in an empty twenty-pound bag of food.  Percy is the cat watching.  Buddy is the youngest animal at Jan's Funny Farm.  He is about two now.  This picture was taken when he was about five months old.  Buddy's very favorite thing is finding food and he is very good at it.  He came to the Funny Farm when he was only 3-4 weeks old and found that the cats were very interesting.  He watched the cats carefully and learned how to climb.  The next thing Jan knew, Buddy was climbing up to the kitchen counter to eat the cat food there.  Jan has had quite a time finding a way to let the cats get to the cat food, but prevent Buddy from getting to it, too.  Buddy is so good at acting like a cat that he is sometimes called the Floppy-Eared Hound Cat.  This incident with Buddy and the food bag happened two years ago, but it was too funny to pass up.  Buddy half-climbed into the empty food bag to get the last crumbs and got stuck.  He was backing up all around the kitchen and the three cats climbed on the bag for a ride.  Jan finally came in and got Buddy out of the bag.

                                        Buddy gave the kitties a ride
                                        On an empty food bag with his head inside.
                                               His head was stuck tight --
                                               An embarrassing plight --
                                       Until Jan came in to salvage his pride.

I have a couple of notes.  My blog has now reached Genius Level in readability and this is my 300th post and 249th limerick.

Buddy

Here's Buddy guarding his cat grass. Buddy is Finnegan's brother. When Buddy was a little kitten, he wandered away from his mother and littermates and got lost. A boy named Brandon found him while he was being mistreated by some boys and saved him. Brandon took him home and the two of them became inseparable and Buddy got his name because people would always say, "Here comes Brandon and his Buddy." After a while, bad things happened to Brandon's family and he couldn't keep Buddy any more. Brandon tried very hard to find a good home for Buddy, by asking around and finally asking on the internet. He contancted Debra, who put Buddy's need for a new home around on the internet and Finnegan's Mom found him and adopted him. Buddy missed Brandon very much at first, but now he and Finnegan are close brothers. Right now Buddy is living with Aunt Ree and two other cats named Gilmore and Grady, while Mom tries to sell their old house and find them a new place to live together. I think Finnegan and Buddy had to go to different houses during this time because Grandma and Grandpa already had two cats and Aunt Ree already had two cats and each said that they could take in one more cat, but not both. Let's all hope that the old house sells soon and Finnegan and Buddy can live together again soon.

Buddy is a farmer. He grows cat grass.
He guards and protects it and keeps it under glass.
When it is grown,
With teeth it is mown.
Buddy and Finnegan both love cat grass.