A murder of crows,
A cast of hawks,
A charm of finches,
A fleet of ships,
A pride of lions,
A leap of leopards,
A parliament of owls,
A rhyme of poets…
Collective nouns for groups of cats. Sometimes my cats are a siren of cats, howling from the shed roof or singing a mouse’s requiem. Sometimes they are a pester of cats, one fatly pleading for food – he is famished – the other for cuddles, psychotically loving. But sometimes they have been an absence of cats, and that’s the only kind I don’t like.
I was tagged for this meme by The Ginger Darlings. I tag Kelly Herold of Big A little a, to date the only American reviewer to have read The Cat Kin.
5 comments:
I do like enigma of cats. And everyone has cat stories, don't they? Our current tom, for example, is gender-challenged.
I read this today, and can't remember where...
a condescension of cats
Hi Nick:
I can't think of a single collective you haven't come up with :)
We do always say, "What's up, dog," to our dumbest cat, though. He's so dumb it's touching :)
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