Once upon a time, there was a dog who insisted on wallowing in the flower beds. The Master and Mistress scolded him when he did it, and the Mistress praised him when he didn’t do it. The Master put big lumpy rocks in the flower…

Yes, Jane, I’m talking about Tootsie. Everybody knows bad-tempered cats, cats who have their little ways. C. Douglas Ramey, long-time director of Louisville’s Shakespeare in Central Park, had a cat who liked to hide under chairs and leap out and bite your ankle as you…

I don’t mean “tiff”, as in “a petty quarrel”. I’m talking about Miss Tiffany, my still-lamented late old cat. I’ve written about her before, like this post which included my poem about her, “The Styrofoam Kitty”. Although “kitty” was never appropriate a cat who was…