AH HA! A new blogging day event for me………….from now on until Mom and I run out of words (hahahaha) I will have a poem every single Thursday. Whatcha think about that? If you wanna play along, you can leave a short poem in comments titled with the letter of the week – we’ll SHARE……..we love to share right? (unless it’s nip then there’s no “share-sies”!). To make it more FUN, I’ll go through the alphabet with the title of my poem starting with (can you guess??) – the letter “A”!
Ahem…
(no that’s not my poem – that’s me clearing my throat!)
Angst
Daily pills I must take
They taste so bad a face I make
I try so hard to just pretend
I’ve swallowed the thing so the agony will end.
But often I hide it inside my cheek
Mom ruins my fun and takes a peek
My pill sits quietly stuck to skin
She finds it and crams it in again!
Noooooo! Not again!
Respectfully Submitted,
TWO Spoiled Cats 
MOL! My human says that her pilling experience with Binga is similar to your poem! That’s why she tries to get any meds for her in syringe form – that is much easier to do with her!
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I’m actually starting to be rather cooperative with this pill thing – it’s about time – I’ve had to take these things for a year now! HAHAHAHA
Hugs, Sammy
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Enjoyed it immensely plus laughed out loud at “the look” Loved it.
Apaws apaws. ❤
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Thank you Miss Sharon! Feel free to join in!
Hugs, Sammy
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Oh, Sammy, I love it! What a neat idea to post an original poem each week. I’m afraid we’ll just be commenting, as we aren’t imaginative enough to be poetic!
Love, Sundae
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Sundae I bet your Mom and you could put your heads together and come up with a two-liner at least! Maybe something about bird-watching???!!!!
Hugs, Sammy
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Love your poem! We don’t love that you have to take pills and try to spit them out but we’re glad
you eventually get them!
The Florida Furkids
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Mom seems to have figured out all my tricks………….darnit!
Hugs, Sammy
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So, try reciting this poem while the pill is being administered — it’ll take your mind of things and make it harder for Mom to get the pill down 😀
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Good idea! Brilliant in fact! I’ll do it!
Hugs, Sammy
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OH Sammy, that reminds me of Admiral when she was taking pills the last three years she was with me. It was an “adventure” each day twice a day. xoxox and she sure did not cooperate.
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HA! Mom is getting pretty good at figuring out all my tricks…..I’m doomed. HAHAHAHA
Hugs, Sammy
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BRAVO! Apaws Apaws… that’s exactly what happens… I wish we had such a big storage bag like that pee-licanes… then the mama can search between rotten fish and berd poop for that pill, ha!
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I do my best to stash that pill in a spot in my mouth she won’t find it but she wins every time!
Hugs, Sammy
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Oh Sammy..a great poem..filled with angst and suffering..for Mom trying to HELP you hahaha …i love this poem idea…mmmm let me see..the letter A..
Ok..here goes..*some poems may actually appear worse than they are*
Apple tree:
In our yard in the cold are our Apple trees
Leaves have all gone in the big freeze
They look so sad and forlorn
Like the sheep when first they are shorn
Come Spring they will blossom and thrive
A sure sign they are still much alive
But for now they just shiver and shake
I wish i had apples to bake..
See Sammy..this poem was worse than any pill you have to swallow Hahaha..Loves Fozziemum xxx
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WHAT A GREAT POEM Fozziemum!!! BRAVO! I’ve seen our trees shivering and shaking but never seen a shorn sheep so I’m taking your word on that part…………well done…….thanks for playing poetry with me today!!! I think your poem gets a HIGH GRADE……and I wish you had some apples to bake too because you can do some dy-no-mite things in the baking department at your house!!!!
Love, Sammy
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Aww thanks Sammy 🙂 yes the sheep get a bit trembly at first but then enjoy the freedom 🙂 not sure about my grading i think you are too kind..but i do wish i had some apples as a nice crumble or pie would warm me right up! Loves Fozziemum xx
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Apple crumble……….yummmmmmmm!
Hugs, Sammy
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With hot vanilla custard and cold icecreammmmmmm 🙂 Loves Fozziemum xx
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YES PLEASE………………!!!!!
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Will get on it 😉 cold and miserable here.,.mught be a good thing for weekend baking..plus i have a lot of limes…might make an old fashioned upside down steamed pudding with a lime curd …..mmmmm 😉
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Oh boy does THAT sound good…..that would be a wonderful start to the weekend! The smell of fresh limes in the house – NICE!
Love, Sammy
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Sammy i agree..citrus just lifts the spirit 🙂 Loves Fozziemum xx
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Apaws! Apaws! Bravo!
Yous has described the experience purrfectly! Except yous left out the claws and scratches aND kitty teeth sunk into soft human flesh! And the outpouring of blood onto clean clothes and carpets – which happens here when pills are administered to moi.
Kisses dear furrend
Nellie
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HAHAHA….Well Nellie I have to admit that the first time Mom tried pilling me NOT using the crushed pill/baby food combo (which I no longer like!) I bit her – right through her fingernail and boy did she yell! There are various other bites on her “putting pill in mouth” hand but they’ve all healed up. I’m kinda used to the routine now. I’m trying to behave but sometimes I can’t resist trying to hide the pill in my mouth until Mom walks away…..then I spit it out! HAHAHAHAHA
Love, Sammy
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That is a great poem Sammy! You could have written it for me except that I froth on the second attempt and make the pill stick to my mum’s fingers.
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Now there’s an idea – but I find stashing it in my mouth to be more fun really – there are a lot of good hiding spots in there!
Love, Sammy
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I love this poem- it is so good. I am excited about your new poem day. We will try to write one, but we have never had the talent you and your Mom have for that. I think a lot of kitties can relate to this one- I know my Millie can.
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The great thing about poetry is there are SO many forms! Even ones that don’t rhyme so take a chance and write one for NEXT Thursday – it will be “B” day!
Hugs, Sammy
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Good morning,, Sammy,
You seem to be like our Sally [who so sadly left us nearly 2 years aho now]. She never took her pills [luckily once a month only] easily. She managed to spit them out ever so often, again and again. But I was reluctant to cram them down too far in her mouth. I didn’t want to hurt her. And mixing with food didn’t work, either. Well, after some struggling I always managed to get her swallow these pills.
Our cats are (somewhat) better. And, luckily, they don’t need pills on a regular basis. Mr. Pickwick now needs special food, though. Something good for his urinary tract. He had stones in his bladder lately that completely prevented him from urinating. Poor chap! He had to stay at the vet’s for a few days, with a catheter and intravenous fluid. But now he’s fine again. Needs to get used to his new type of food, though. Just now we mix dry and tinned food, and he seems to like it pretty much. The other four get the new food, too [mixed with their usual stuff fo a while, to get them used to the new taste]. Even if their bladders are ok, it can’t be bad for them, especially for the 3 fixed males, to have urinary-healthy food.
Well, after that long discourse I keep my fingers crossed for you that you’ll be able somehow to swallow the “bitter pill”, and that it helps!
Good luck, and enjoy the day,
Pit
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Hi Mr. Pit! From what I know, most cats aren’t too crazy about pilling – some seem to have no problem with that plastic tube thing being stuck in their mouths but I sure did – I was a WILD MAN when Mom tried to use it – now she just pops it in and that’s that. I hope your kitties all do well with the special food….I’m told those special diets really do work and I hope that’s the case for your crew!!!!
Love, Sammy
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Well, mostly I’ve been lucky using that plastic tube thingy, but I’m always afraid I might hurt the kitties. Thanks for the good wishes for ours and their (new) food.
Enjoy “bacon Saturday” and a quiet snoozy weekend,
Pit
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Mom just couldn’t bring herself to continue with the piller thing – I REALLY didn’t like it shoved in my mouth – now I’m letting her use her hand with no biteys!
Happy Saturday!
Hugs, Sammy
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You’re a wonderful guy, Sammy! So patient. Have a great weekend, all of you,
Pit
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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY MR. PIT!!!!! 🙂
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Thanks, Sammy! But … I’m not a father. I don’t have children. During my years as a teacher I always said I have children enough in my classroom. 😉
Enjoy your Sunday,
Pit
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My Mom and Dad don’t have kids either – their cats and dogs have been their “children” so we celebrate Father’s Day. Caretakers of animals are – essentially – Moms and Dads – giving love, shelter, food, and medical care…..just as parents of human kids do……….so I say HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to you for all you do for your furry family members!!!!! 😉
Love, Sammy
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Thanks, Sammy, for that lovely sentiment. 🙂
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Very good, you nailed this one. Oh so true. Can just picture you mom cramming in the pill ❤
Be sure to put your poems together and make a book.
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If I could get my poems printed on toilet paper I think they might be a hit……..otherwise – not so sure……..HAHAHAHAHA Thanks for the compliment though – this is a fun thing to do and I hope people will join in with me!
Love, Sammy
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Wow! You are a regular Shakespeare, Sammy! I have missed you two SOOO much! Life took over and I disappeared. So here is a flood of hugs to make up for my absence…. HUGHUGHUGHUGHUGHUGHUGHUGHUGHUGHUGHUG!! 😀
Love,
Samantha and Puppydoc 🙂
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Oh gosh that was quite a HUG-O-RAMA! Thanks for all of those and you’ve more than made up for deserting us for so long……we really did hope that you were OK but you’re right – sometimes life does pull us away from things we might prefer doing OR sometimes we just CHOOSE to take the road less traveled! Whatever it was for you – we’re glad to see you again!
Love, Sammy and Mom Pam
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Mee-you Unccle Sammy yur toe-tally poe-etick!!!! See mee NEW wee were related!!! Xcellent poe-em about takin yur meddycayshun!
Mee rote a poe-em about mee ‘angest’…what do you fink of it Unccle???
ANGST
Mee waitss fur LadyMum
Shee iss so late…
mee wunderss an fretss…
what iss her fate??
Did shee get hert?
or get nabbed away?
An then she arrivess
to save mee day!
~~head rubsss~~ Poe-etick neffkitty Siddhartha Henry~~
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BRAVO SIDDHARTHA! Well done my little nephew…..you have the soul of a poet!
Hugs, Uncle Sammy
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~~~~play bowsss~~~~
Mee has been ritin poe-etree since mee came here…fank you fur thee compleemint Unccle Sammy!!!!
**nose bumpsss** neffkitty Siddhartha Henry xxxx
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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dood
thiz eye dea total lee rockz
put thoz pillz inn side dadz sox
sew with R letter A heer goez
dad will wunder whatz on hiz toez
🙂 ♥♥♥
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…………….VERY GOOD Tabbies! I love it – I may try that too instead of hiding it in my cheek. Thanks for the idea!
Hugs, Sammy
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Love it!! 🙂
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Thank you Miss Lemony!!!! I’m a poet and I know it……………. 😉
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MOL!
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Standing ovation to the Poetic PussyCat and his able bodied assistant.
Been there done that on the pill thing. Dad was surprised at how much strength an 11 lb cat had.
MOL
hugs madi your bfff
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We are forces to be reckoned with when we don’t want something right Madi? Nine pounds or 20 pounds, we can make it known how we feel (scraaaaaaatch/bitey).
Love, Sammy
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Ha! Way to go! You’ve got mad skills, buddy!
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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Hi Cupcake! Glad you like my poem……….next week I have to come up with one titled with a “B”…..hmm…..wonder what it will “B” about?!
Love, Sammy
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jThat was terrific Sammy and I can sure relate to that!
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A lot of us have to take medication for one reason or another…….just like our humans do……….at least I don’t have to take as MANY pills as my humans (so far!).
Love, Sammy
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Oh Sammy, dat was cute. But sorry ’bout havin’ to take da pills.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
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I’m doing well with the pill-taking Dezi……twice a day……you kinda get used to it!
Love, Sammy
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Soooo you are a poet and didn’t know it
Snorts,
Lily & Edward
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Hi Kiddos! Yes, I’ve decided to stretch my creative genes and write a bit of poetry every week. I’m NOT just a pretty face! HAHA
Love, Sammy
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Very cool post,
We love it the most.
Ciara takes pills,
Not much thrills,
But Mom uses HAM,
And the pills are gone like BAM!
Woos – Ciara and Lightning
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WELL DONE WOOS!!!!! I love your poem and it’s about our dear Ciara and how well her meds are working to keep the Evil “S” away – we hope that’s working AND that she’s feeling better on the meds too! Sending you big hugs for the weekend.
Love, Sammy
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What a wonderful poem! We love to write poems so If we can think of one, we’ll come back and post it!!
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GOOD!!! Next week will be “B” day so you can get one ready to post for then too!!
Hugs, Sammy
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Oh Sammy. That’s a gret poem…but we’re sorry taking your pill has become a pill for you. We’re gonna like this new feature. 🙂
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I think poetic Thursdays will be fun……………..and I really am getting better with the pill taking…….I rarely give Mom a hard time but I do like keeping her on her toes! HAHAHA
Hugs, Sammy
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Sammy, Fiona uses that trick and then the humans find a pill stuck to the side of her face. Who says an old guy can’t bamboozle his humans and then write a terrific poem about it. Way to go! We like this idea for Thursdays. Since we know you are going alphabetically, we can think of a B poem for next week. Since Mom will be at BlogPaws next week, we suspect we know what she’ll write about. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
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Oh yes – Blogpaws…..My Mom hopes that your Mom will have fun and take lots of photos…..is Flat Mau going along? I’m glad you think it might be fun to pawtipate on my poetic Thursdays – I thought it would be a hoot!
Love, Sammy
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Pills I don’t have to take
not even for my health’s sake
The peeps don’t have to fake
and you thought this would rhyme?
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Kismet you had me going there for the first three lines….then you sucker punched me. Sneaky BURD! SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!
Hugs, Sammy
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hahaha…MOL MOL Kali related so well to your poem Sammy. Me? I loved the white cat that looks so shocked. Mom could relate to your mom trying to put the pill down the throat. We all could relate Sammy. Thanks for that. We are discussing it now. MOL
Shoko
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I’m getting better with the pill thing……….since I gave up baby food, the “pill shoved in the mouth” way is the quickest and easiest. I still am pretty good at making her think I’ve swallowed it when I really haven’t but don’t tell her OK?
Hugs, Sammy
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Oh, poor Sammy! I say, though, just be thankful they aren’t suppositories!
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Gosh….that does put a whole new perspective on things……..so to speak………ouch………..
Hugs, Sammy
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LOL, here’s a picture I found once that I occasionally use on my blog to serve as a reminder that those regular pills may not be so bad after all…
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LOL! That is a very funny poem… you did good, Sammy! I am sorry you have to take those pills but writing a funny poem about it maybe helps the pill go down easier. Or not! Good Morning!
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Hi Miss Pix! I actually am pretty good about taking my dingy-dangy pills. Once in a while I’ll spit it right back out but Mom’s right there and just jams it right back in. She’s getting good at it!
Hugs, Sammy
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MOL! I think many cats would agree with this poem.
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Anybody who takes meds would! Right? LOL
Love, Sam
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