May I Please Have Your Paw In Marriage? (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
Is your schnauzer in love with your collie?
\nJolly England can help you, by golly:
\nCanine weddings\u2014dog marriage
\nI’d never disparage.
\nBut prenups?\u00a0Now that would be folly.<\/p>\n
Fine Feathers, a farm in the Staffordshire Moorlands, is offering pet “weddings” for people who want their dog, cat, or farm animal to marry its mate.<\/a> I found this gem of an oddball story in the weird news feeds, which are regularly updated on my offbeat news page.<\/a><\/p>\n (You can find more of my dog and animal related poems and humor here<\/a>\u00a0and my marriage humour here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n NOTE ABOUT THE UPDATE: <\/strong>\u00a0I decided I didn’t like the last line of my limerick and have replaced it with a new one.\u00a0 (The\u00a0old one was “But please don’t let ferns marry holly.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May I Please Have Your Paw In Marriage? (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Is your schnauzer in love with your collie? Jolly England can help you, by golly: Canine weddings\u2014dog marriage I’d never disparage. But prenups?\u00a0Now that would be folly. Fine Feathers, a farm in the Staffordshire Moorlands, is offering pet “weddings” for people who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,42,2,32],"tags":[775,780,762,778,769,779,774,776,777],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-humor","category-limericks","category-marriage-humor","category-social-satire","tag-animal-verse","tag-animal-weddings","tag-canine-poems","tag-collie","tag-dog-humor","tag-jolly-england","tag-pet-limericks","tag-pet-marriage","tag-schnauzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}