In a household of two cats and a dog, the felines are outweighed--but not intimidated! ("Dogs have masters; cats have staff")

Butter is a pleasure cat,
Brown and yellow,
warm and fat
Lolling languid on the mat,
Inviting me to stop and chat.

Not a bone of her is mean,
as not a limb of her is lean,
Peering through the backyard screen,
She spies doves on grassy green,
Like cooing meals on wings
They seem.

Kao is a wiry cat,
Pipe cleaners are made like that.
He winds around my Shermy dog
Enveloping like chilly fog.

Shem is shaken to his soul--
Cat encounters cut their toll.
Eighty pounds of canine quiver,
Shamed that Kao instills shiver.