Sneaky Pie for President by Rita Mae Brown

Author:Rita Mae Brown [Brown, Rita Mae]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-345-53354-8
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

“I could be dead!” the cat wailed.

“Take more than one bite to kill that fat thing.” Tally enjoyed Pewter’s fright. “Take all twenty-two feet of a mature python to wrap around the blubber.”

“I will kill you.” Pewter, still quite enlarged, flew straight for Tally, who had the good sense to run.

“Are they always like this?” Daisy asked, as she watched the two zigzag, circle, screaming, barking all the way.

“Yes,” the tiger cat forthrightly answered.

“The two cats at our house can be divas, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cat like Pewter,” the shepherd said.

Sneaky and Tucker laughed and said in unison, “Lucky you.”

Turning up to climb through the meadows and then pastures to the barns, they spotted in the distance Pewter chasing Tally on the farm road now.

Jones and his two blind pasture mates, Blue Sky and Shamus, the pony, heard the commotion. Jones, with his one good eye, described the action. All three equines snorted air out of their nostrils, laughing at the description of the fat cat chasing the little dog.

“Moves pretty good for a large cat,” the shepherd observed.

“That she does.” Tucker wondered how long this fight would last and wasn’t looking forward to hearing about it from both parties. Tempest in a teapot. She feared it would go on for days.

Sneaky returned to life in the service. “When you were retired, did you get retirement pay?”

“No.”

“Did you have a rank in the Army?”

“No.”

“So you did all that work for free? No pay, no hazard pay, no retirement pay?”

“Not one penny. I did get free medical care in the service, though, but not now, of course. We rely on private citizens to help us after our duty is over.”

“If I am elected I promise that all animals who have served in the Armed Forces will get pay, get retirement pay, and all the benefits that accrue to humans. I will work unceasingly for this.”

“We’ve been in all the wars,” said Daisy. “Many of us were killed. Before mechanized warfare, think of the horses and mules, and what about carrier pigeons?” The shepherd knew she and the other animals throughout time often got a raw deal.

“And yet animals are proud to serve,” said Sneaky. “There were one-point-five million horses and mules who lost their lives in the War Between the States, and of all the horses taken over to Belgium and France for World War I, none came home, I think.” Sneaky knew most all of them died, shoved in unmarked graves, if buried at all. World War I was unremitting horror for humans and animals.

“Would you serve again?” Tucker wanted to know.

“I would. I liked the Army, but remember I was bred for this. I think it’s the same for people. Some can take the discipline and danger, but most can’t. I do think we should receive compensation, though. I mean, I can’t enlist, but once any of us are in there, we deserve consideration.”

“I see. What about the dolphins? The Navy trains them, doesn’t it?” Sneaky wondered.

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