20 Pounds of Seed Collector

This time of year, my 20 pounds of housecat becomes a collector of seeds.  As he slinks downslope from my house through invasive swaths of cheatgrass, through needle-and-thread grass, through foxtails, and through bur-bearing forbs; the various barbs and hooks of maturing seeds affix themselves to his Velcro coat of fur.

After a long day of collecting seeds, he sleeps on my sofa.

Interesting side note: apparently my sofa is equipped with some sort of seed release mechanism, which releases the seeds from my cat’s coat.

--Mitchell Hegman