Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit (57 page)

Midnight Louie, Esq

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Carole Nelson Douglas
Makes Room for Daddy
You're a tine one to philosophize about fatherhood,
Louie.

You've only just now barely acknowledged the de
lightful Midnight Louise as your daughter.

But you're right that the feline kingdom is a matri
archy when it comes to family life. A lot of human households are becoming more like that, since some hu
man fathers are also likely to slip away from the con
fines of a domestic life.

Still, humans are hooked on relationships. They have
a sense of history about where their forebears have been and where they and the whole human family might be going.

So when blood relations are missing, they find unre
lated people to fill in for the absent father, or mother, or brother or sister, or child. Sometimes even your kind do the job, Louie.

As for your speculations on the uniquely human con
dition known as "romance," you are about as expert
there as a lapdog would be at bloodhound work.

You're just lucky to have an alternate source of affec
tion and support when your rambling and gambling
days are over: all of those human females who don't
mind a roguish ladies' man around the house . . . if he's
of another species.