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Stapler-Cat says Click-Mew
Mar. 8th, 2025 09:19 amIn a dream last night I was at a music history conference, which is not unusual for me, and I had a pet stapler-cat, which is.
I called it "cat", but in every way it was more of a living stapler, small enough to hold in one hand, rectangular with no separation of head and body. It was covered with short green felt fur and had eyes on the top of it's head that looked like plastic googly eyes. So from the top it looked rather like a young child's craft project, but it was also an animal, with short lizard legs that it would use to scamper around. It had 2 long staple-fangs protruding down from it's upper jaw.
When I wanted it to stay for a minute and not run off, I put it on a tree branch and pressed down on it's head, sinking its staple-fangs into the bark. This stuck stapler-cat in place. I set it free by tapping on the top of its head again. Stapler-cat looked at me with it's googly-eyes in more embarrassment than annoyance, but forgave me as I petted it and called it "good cat".
I called it "cat", but in every way it was more of a living stapler, small enough to hold in one hand, rectangular with no separation of head and body. It was covered with short green felt fur and had eyes on the top of it's head that looked like plastic googly eyes. So from the top it looked rather like a young child's craft project, but it was also an animal, with short lizard legs that it would use to scamper around. It had 2 long staple-fangs protruding down from it's upper jaw.
When I wanted it to stay for a minute and not run off, I put it on a tree branch and pressed down on it's head, sinking its staple-fangs into the bark. This stuck stapler-cat in place. I set it free by tapping on the top of its head again. Stapler-cat looked at me with it's googly-eyes in more embarrassment than annoyance, but forgave me as I petted it and called it "good cat".
