Mommy My Paw Hurts

This was so painful as you can see.
I am hurt because someone stepped on me.
It was my left paw and on it I can’t stand.
I am so tiny and into me they ran.

It hurt me real bad and it would also hurt you.
If you weighed 1 lb and the shoe weighed two.
I have to be quick and look where I go.
If I catch them in time I can bite their toe.

It tickles me when I hear a scream.
I tear at their socks and pull at the seam.
They think I am a pit bull when they feel my teeth.
But I can bite them when the table they are beneath.

I am so little I sneak around and pick out the best.
I like little toes so I leave the rest.
The big ones are to hard for me to chew.
So I leave them and bite their shoe.

Now I love shoe strings and have one of my own.
If I could learn to tie a knot I’d be blessed in my home.
For under the table when into my masters house they wear a shoe.
I think it might be okay and what she would do.

I’d twist and turn and together them I would tie.
Then they would stumble and sway and with a loud voice cry.
"What the!" How did this happen as they fall to their knees.
Then they would know, no shoes in this house if you please.

Now my master, she knows me and at her I tug.
And when I shiver and shake she puts me on a rug.
She knows I have to go and quickly puts me down.
But it's funny when others are around.

They are not sure so they cuddle me tight.
And then I have to hold my bladder with all my might.
I am thinking, should I let it go?
And then for sure the next time they will know.

Signed: Angel Lee Dash age 8 weeks

© by Harriett Dash Sept. 2002