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Competition

Pet hate

15 August 2015

9:00 AM

15 August 2015

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2910 you were invited to submit a poem by a pet who is cheesed off with its owner.

The contempt in Basil Ransome-Davies’s closing couplet, written from the perspective of a bolshie moggy, was echoed throughout the entry by a hacked-off parade of bullied, misunderstood and condescended-to pets:

He wants affection, he can kiss a duck.

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