Yes, this piece is very silly.
Let's get that out of the way, right at the start.
I'm not sure who, exactly was the first one to call a Caracal cat a "Floppa", but I'll admit I found it amusing on the level of calling a raccoon "Trash-Panda". Even more so, since I spent eight years of my life working as a carnivore keeper in a private zoo, caring for numerous non-domestic cat species, including several Caracal.
Then, as now, some facilities would bottle-raise their Caracals, so that some of the remain quite tame into adulthood, although just like Servals (aka "Sogga"), Floppa can be rather hissy and spitty (although to be fair, some of it is just for show), and some Caracals can be quite loving with their chosen human servants (witness Dolph Volker's YouTube videos of his interactions with Stewie the Caracal, for instance).
Anyway, to try and keep this as short as possible, back in my zookeeping days, I knew of another private individual, who had a tame and bottle-raised Caracal that was named "Crackle", apparently because folks couldn't pronounce "Caracal", and simply said: "Crackle".
So, this rough and silly piece is nothing more and nothing less than my own "Man from Nantucket" poetaster scrawling about a Floppa named Crackle. (I say "poetaster", because I am fully aware that it only vaguely conforms to the accepted, Limerick format)
Let's get that out of the way, right at the start.
I'm not sure who, exactly was the first one to call a Caracal cat a "Floppa", but I'll admit I found it amusing on the level of calling a raccoon "Trash-Panda". Even more so, since I spent eight years of my life working as a carnivore keeper in a private zoo, caring for numerous non-domestic cat species, including several Caracal.
Then, as now, some facilities would bottle-raise their Caracals, so that some of the remain quite tame into adulthood, although just like Servals (aka "Sogga"), Floppa can be rather hissy and spitty (although to be fair, some of it is just for show), and some Caracals can be quite loving with their chosen human servants (witness Dolph Volker's YouTube videos of his interactions with Stewie the Caracal, for instance).
Anyway, to try and keep this as short as possible, back in my zookeeping days, I knew of another private individual, who had a tame and bottle-raised Caracal that was named "Crackle", apparently because folks couldn't pronounce "Caracal", and simply said: "Crackle".
So, this rough and silly piece is nothing more and nothing less than my own "Man from Nantucket" poetaster scrawling about a Floppa named Crackle. (I say "poetaster", because I am fully aware that it only vaguely conforms to the accepted, Limerick format)
Category Poetry / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Feline (Other)
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