N is for No Pets

This is the Natty, Neat and Noisily Nifty beyond belief A-to-Z April 2015 Challenge!!!!  And I am an A to Z Participant.  And it is Day 14, Letter N!

Again this year I am writing a poem a day to celebrate National Poetry Month.  It's my FOURTH YEAR in a ROW of writing a poem a day for the A to Z Challenge. My theme this year, is signs I've photographed and poems to go with them.
http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-to-z-challenge-sign-uplist-2015.html
To see more A to Z, click the N above.

I did not use this sign, but I really liked it! Maybe another year.

But this one...oh, my!
I chose this picture instead.  I took this years ago, somewhere in Maine.  I found it to be hilarious.  It has inspired a rhyming acrostic for today's letter N.

NO PETS

Never stuff a dog or cat in or
Out through this slot.

Perhaps you've
Entertained the
Thought
Surely, you know it would hurt a lot.

Comments

  1. EcoCatLadyApril 16, 2015 at 3:46 AM

    Ha! I love it!

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  2. Linda BApril 16, 2015 at 8:59 AM

    So happy you keep the pictures. Indeed it would be painful!

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    1. Donna SmithApril 16, 2015 at 10:07 PM

      I have a few other pictures that I wish I could find! One was a sign on a cemetery wall that read "No Dumping"!

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  3. Chrys FeyApril 16, 2015 at 10:35 AM

    That's funny! People should think twice about the signs they write and where they put them. :P

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    1. Donna SmithApril 16, 2015 at 10:08 PM

      I know, but if they did, it wouldn't be so much fun discovering them!

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