The cat with no taste for fish

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There was a cat who had the misfortune of being born without an appreciation for fish. It affected his senses so much that he regarded all fish inedible. For the first year of his life this quirk caused him no trouble, but then...

He was bought by an elderly couple with an insatiable hunger for foods made of fish. There were always plenty of leftovers from the lunch table, and always they were given to the cat, and always he had to refuse. The elderly couple, with their small pensions, could not withstand this impact of food going to waste, and so they had to give up the cat.

A new page was turned in his life. He became an alley cat, scouring the dumpsters for his daily non-fish dinners and getting into brawls with the other, more tough-skinned and sharp-whiskered cats of the streets. But as time went by, he learned to frequent the safest streets and to recognize which neighborhoods produced the most edible refuse for him.

Since the other cats did not much mind garbage that had no fish, he was able to find his own niche in the world. He lived quite happily -- though always a bit dirty and scraggy -- for the rest of his nine lives, which amounted to nearly five years in total.

• Torn

  by vader7071

  Posted Jun 19, 2008
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  I have to agree with Justin. The "hidden message" lends itself to being a good piece. It may not have been your intent, but it did open the door. And invoking thought is never a bad thing, and keeping thought going is what helps us all develop. This may not have been your intent, bu... (read more)

• Flragnararch
  Jul 25, 2008
  What we have here is a failure in communication
  
  Right at the top there it says, "A minute telling of one cat's life."
  
  this is a story about a cat with no taste for fish
• Manman
  Jun 15, 2008
  It doesn't really have to be singled into homosexuality. It could be an apt metaphor for any kind of pleasure or aversion that is seen as "outside the social norm." While homosexuality is the most easily applied, and does make a certain amount of sense, it could as easily be applied to any kind of fetish, or any sort of inner self-discovery.
  
  Really good short though.
• Soli
  Jun 14, 2008
  Ya it's easy to think there is a hidden message since the story taken literally has no message or point. Homosexuality is a good guess because of the hard times mentioned and how others pressured the cat to indulge in what the other cats liked. I'd have to side with Adam on this one.
• BlueShizz
  Jun 14, 2008
  When someone mentions pussy...well, I won't go there.
• Justin
  Jun 14, 2008
  When someone mentions pussy, the first animal I think of is a cat, not a fish.
• Michael
  Jun 9, 2008
  Well, yeah, I got the fish part. Haha. But we'll never know for sure until the author speaks up.

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• Jun 7, 2008 at 5:21 AM
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