Barking cat for sale

The ad in the pet store, in addition to making me miss it, made me go inside, something I rarely do because I don't like having captive animals at home, but if the idea of placing "I sell barking cat" was to attract customers, I had succeeded.

However, once inside I realized that the only one curious seemed to have been me, because the clerk, a middle-aged woman, was reading the newspaper in a desolate place.

I looked with my eyes and in some cages there were two cats and a dog, far from each other.

I approached the cats, as a spectator does when entering those circus shows where they exhibit phenomena such as two-headed women and others, and they both ignored me, no doubt they were used to people.

-Do you like cats? -the clerk shouted at me without stopping reading.

-Yes, -I answered.

-If you have children, either of them are perfect, they are used to being petted.

I touched their cages almost hidden from her, to break the tranquility of the felines and it worked because they got up and looked at me as if stung by a bee.

I expected one of them to bark at me but was disappointed by the laziness of both, who returned in less than a minute to their previous lethargy.

I continued exploring the place, I got to the dog, a poodle, probably crossed with another breed because its face was not elongated.

I hesitated between asking for the ad but finally did.

-Which one is the one in the ad out there?

I was disappointed to think that he might have sold it by now.

The woman left the newspaper on the counter and walked over to where I was.

-That one in front of you. -he said, pointing with his finger.

I looked at the poodle again, puzzled and convinced it was not a cat.

No doubt I had fallen for a joke and even looked for a hidden camera.