Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? Momma says I have a naddikshun! She says Chickie has a naddikshun to drinking out of the bathroom faucet, but I have a different naddikshun — in fact, I have two! More than Chickie!
She says one is bad and one is good, but I like both, so I think both of them are good.
The one she says is bad is the one about my window seat. It gots a foam on it, and a fluffy cover over that. I like to pull the fluffy cover off and … Momma says this is bad … eat the foam.

Momma stops me when she catches me, so I try to do it when she isn’t looking because I don’t like for her to worry.
My other nadikkshun is for petting. I don’t care if I get petted with a hand…

…or a foot.

She says Chickie and I share a nobsesshun with keeping an eye on Adi.

A WRITING PROMPT FOR ANIMALS: Do you have a nobsesshun or a nadikkshun?
TA
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
September 10, 2022 at 1:27pmFoam not good for tummy. Not meant to be eaten. Can’t even imagine swallowing the stuff. Tipper, you’re weird.
Marian Allen
September 11, 2022 at 9:23amHe is, indeed. Mostly sweet, but totally weird.
Dan Antion
September 10, 2022 at 12:00pmStop eating the foam, and maybe you’ll get petted more.
Marian Allen
September 11, 2022 at 9:23amlol! The only way he could get petted more is if I Gorilla Glued him to my hand.