For this weekend’s edition of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap we are going into territory that is infrequently traveled.
It is almost the domestic equivalent of a National Geographic camera team going into the jungles of South America and sneaking up on a three-toed sloth dozing with a slumbering jaguar in side-by-side recliners while watching a Dallas Cowboys game. It’s a rare scene.
In fact, the human who adores these animals, Stephanie Cronk, says that “it’s VERY rare (in fact, this is the only photo I have of it) that the cats let Lewis [the pug] this close without some sort of repercussion, much less let him sleep with them.”
We’ve mentioned Stephanie Cronk here before. She is one of the sponsors of the Euless Trinity High School Girls Awareness Program (GAP), the club that has adopted the Euless Animal Shelter as a project.
And this photo represents three of her seven critters. Lewis is the Pug, Mitch is the Red Tabby and Modano is the black-and-white domestic shorthair.
One of the reasons this is a rare photo is, she says, “Lewis has a thing about ‘having’ to be next to someone when he sleeps, so he was determined on this day, that it would be the cats.”
All seven of the household’s critters are rescues. Lewis came from the Euless shelter and Mitch from the Fort Worth Humane Society, Stephanie says. “Modano was rescued 9 years ago from a co-worker who really had no business having kittens. I think since Lewis is the smallest of our dogs, he’s the only one that the cats will ever allow this close to snuggle, although I’d love to one day get a photo of all 7 in a sleeping pile!”
(To nominate your slumbering household or barn critters – dogs, cats, cattle, horses, deadbeat brother-in-law, etc. – for Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap, send the photo and info to [email protected]. At Readlarrypowell.com, we are proud to publish photos of sleeping animals because, as insomniacs, we hope that we, too, some day, without having to turn to over-the-counter pills, will be able to drift off in a comfortable position for more than just 20 or 30 minutes. To sleep, perchance to wake with a start and wonder why all night long.)
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