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36 (Continued from page 35) neous, and messy and have fun with learning basic and experimental watercolour techniques. Enjoy practising new skills in creating your unique landscape, still life or abstract pictures. Class length: 3 hours Classes: 8 Location: Victoria Road Rec Centre Fee: $115.84 Members, $130.84 Non-Members Tue Apr 16, 1 p.m. Code: 222629 SPECIAL EVENTS Guelph Pride Week Do you identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or on the gay spectrum? Come and enjoy an afternoon of companionship and fun at the Seniors Pride Event. Do you have a child, grandchildren, nephews or nieces who have identified themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or on that spectrum? Please join us for information and discussion of those topics in an accepting venue. Refreshments and sandwiches will be provided. Thur June 6, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free Spring Fashion Show Models from the Evergreen Seniors Community Centre will be modelling an exciting lineup of clothing and accessories. Light refreshments will be served following the show. Purchase tickets in advance at the front desk. Tues May 14, 1 p.m. (doors open at 12:30 p.m.) $8.98+HST Did you know that you can purchase your Guelph transit tickets and monthly passes at the Evergreen Seniors Community Centre? Tickets are also available at all City recreation centres and at ServiceGuelph at City Hall. VOLUNTEER MUSICIANS REQUIRED Mary Lynn Woods, keyboardist for the Silvertones, is seeking versatile musicians to establish a GWSA house band! Our upcoming November Ceilidh Show requires guitar, bass, fiddle, mandolin and percussion positions. Participants must have their own instruments. Call Mary Lynn at 519-827-1373 for more information and a jam session! T S - M 2019 — V. 43, N. 9
My Name is Clancy! by Ross Coulter Let me introduce myself. My name is Clancy. I am a feline of the first order, that being “I am a cat”. I am a Tom by sex, meaning a male of the species, but “Tom” may be a misnomer as someone did a snip job on me. I haven’t and never will sire kittens. I have never subscribed to a DNA test as far as trying to determine my genetic heritage, but there are those, professional vets included, who have taken a stab at guessing. Results inconclusive. You see, I am a big ball of mostly black fur with white on my chin extending down my chest and tummy. I also have white paws. Some people refer to that as a “tuxedo look” and thus have referred to me as a “tuxedo cat”, but there is no such official breed in any feline listings that I am aware of. I guess one would have to refer to me as a mixed breed. But which ones? As far as I know, I was born in Canada of suspect parentage it seems, but it has been speculated that I have a mix of Maine Coon, a bit of American there, and Northland Forest, a Norwegian breed that gives me some international flavour. I can rightly subscribe to both as I fit the mold for both. I am semi long-haired, big boned and have an average adult weight of up to 25 pounds. I am currently weighing in at around 29 pounds, but I attribute the bit extra to my advancing age. It also doesn’t help that I am an indoor cat and don’t have much room to run around and exercise when not sleeping or eating, of which I do a lot. I’m not as sensitive about divulging my age as some feline femmes might be, so I don’t mind revealing that I am, by best guess, 13 human years old going on 14. I remember very little about my formative years, just that somehow I wound up in a cage at the local humane society when I was two years old. I have no idea how I got there or what went before. All I know is that I was kept warm and well fed with a bit of cuddling thrown in. That sure made me purr! I remember the day I was adopted because of the fuss the couple I now call my master and mistress made over me. They couldn’t stop hugging and petting me. I still get a lot of that. My mistress brushes me every day and my master gives me great body and leg massages. The only complication in my life is my current roommate, the little “brat” they adopted the same day as me. He was only four months old and I guess they thought he was so cute they couldn’t leave him behind to who-knows-what fate. He was kind of pushy and really endeared himself. We’ve been roommates for the last 12 years and he hasn’t changed a bit, always demanding attention, and getting it! They named him Casey. I am so different. I am quiet and gentle despite my size and I have a very soft voice. I think my only negative, besides missing the litter box on rare occasion, is that I seem to have a built-in food clock. But for the little “brat”, I’d probably sleep longer in the morning, but he likes to be fed really early and his supposedly cutsie antics rouse both me and my master. Who am I to refuse food when it’s laid out? I’m not a clock watcher, I couldn’t tell a clock from a food dish, but my tummy tells me daily when it’s 12:00 noon and I go searching for the hand that feeds wherever in the house it may be found. That’s when I let out my soft plaintive cry. It gets the desired effect and I get lunch. I use the same tactic come five o’clock and I get dinner. My master is a real pushover and sometimes I wonder who the real master is. I say no more on that issue. Instinct tells me that cats have always reigned. The only real problem I have with my current existence is my weight. I really am heavier than I should be and I now waddle when I walk and have to take it slow going up and down stairs. My humans seldom pick me up now, certainly not nearly as often as the “brat”, and I have great difficulty jumping up on their laps when they’re sitting on the sofa or an easy chair, besides which the “brat” already has their attention. What a big suck he is! They never call me fat for fear they might hurt my feelings, but they often call me “Huphalump”. What’s a “Huphalump”? I have no idea, but I certainly wish they would just call me Clancy! To be continued with Casey the “Brat’s” rebuttal! 37 T S - M 2019
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