Mochi’s at ease in air jail
flops
only her bug eyes
hint
at discipline.
Yesterday we built a monolith
plant jail
for giant pumpkin but
acab
I’m for abolition.
Photos by Catherin J Pascal Dunk and Elly Belfort-Mattos 2026
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That’s very wonderfully written, C! 👍
I’ve written a haiku today for Crimson’s Creative Challenge, called The White Leaves! Also, I’ve written an inspiring One-Liner Wednesday. Hope you like them. ☺️
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Thank you! Did you understand it? My mentor thinks there’s too much insider knowledge… I just added another pic to the post that may help.
Will look at your work soon x
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My pleasure! I understood this poem after looking at new pictures. ☺️
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cool. one of my kids invented ‘air jail’ lol
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Haha! That sounds very great 👍 What does that do, though?
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Thanks for asking Y!
Well, if one of the cats does something wrong (eg jumping onto the dining table), we pick them up and hold them in the air for about 10 seconds
1. it immediately stops them doing the thing they weren’t supposed to do
2. maybe they will get the idea that it was not a good idea and not repeat that behaviour in the future
3. it’s a kind of punishment but it’s gentle…they don’t seem distressed
We’re not sure if it works or if they even realise they were doing something we didn’t want LOL
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You’re most welcome, C!
LOL! This punishment sounds like a gentle one; holding the cat in the air for ten seconds and hoping that the cat maybe gets the idea that what they did wasn’t a good idea.
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We used to try scruffing them…this is what a mother cat does to discourage her kittens from doing something annoying or unsafe: she grabs them by the scruff of their neck and airlifts them to safety. It’s not good to lift a grown cat this way, by the skin of their neck, as it can injure them, so we developed a similar alternative…
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That similar alternative sounds safer than scruffing, which can indeed injure cats.
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yes we didn’t lift them once they were no longer kittens, but still grabbing them at the neck seems unnecessarily violent
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Air jail pic added!
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Another pic added
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