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“Cat Master” (Confusion)

I have always dreamt of keeping pets, especially dogs and cats and one day mom brought a little kitty in. We could hardly see its brown eyes but its claws were long enough to scratch us all. We were very happy and started quarrelling as for how long a day each of us could spend with the kitty. Mom asked us to let the youngest brother be the first. Each of us was allowed to play with the cat for about ten minutes. But ten minutes was a short time for the youngest brother and he would come and seize the kitty as we were playing with it. He usually pulled the kitty’s tail when he could find no other way to attract its attention.
Then mom put the kitty in a box.
“Now you will stop teasing the poor animal. You can sit by this box and stroke the pussy.”
But my brother could not agree with this kind of requirement and just sat on the pussy putting his hand on its head.
Mom could hardly save the animal. In the morning she found other people for the kitty.
“The kitty better lives with other people than dies,” mom said when she came back.