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The digital collage and poem above were created by Rachel Hoyt for her newest website - www.turtleypawsome.com - a collection of pet fairy tales, folk tales, and urban legends designed to educate and inspire. Rachel is using digital collages to bring her stories to life on her website and creating additional art for the @pokeyandharry Instagram account to travel the world through her art.

Ironic Animal Love

Image by Phiseksit via freedigitalphotos.net

Examples of irony in real life are amusing,

though generally simultaneously confusing...

like the move to ban all pet sales in San Fran,

the city named for a sainted animal fan.

They'll still allow them to be sold as food.

(Not exactly that for which Assisi stood).

The shelters workers are sad from flushing abandoned fish.

and making young hamsters sleep more soundly than they wish.

They seem to think their work is the ultimate proof

that people's love for animals vanished with a poof.

Their lives are not valued so sales should be banned?

To lend the furry, creepy and crawly a helping hand?

Perhaps they were people who couldn't find a landlord

unscathed to see a car plaque that says, "Paws on board!"

Maybe they also recently lost their house,

but previously would've cared for every last mouse?

A pet ban, to me, seems a little bit rash;

a way for the city to save lots of cash.

The silver lining, I suppose, is they haven't banned pets.

Yet if I lived there now I would have some regrets.

Finding a place to buy stuff for my cat and my turtle

would become more rare than little girls named Myrtle.

Plus, I love to visit baby rabbits and pups at the store.

Petting them is a past time I absolutely adore.

© Rachel Hoyt 2011.  All rights reserved.

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