THE CAT'S TAIL

Late one dark evening, a man is driving home down a side street. Although he is driving cautiously, a cat runs out between two parked cars right into his path. He slams on the brakes and swerves attempting to miss the cat, but hears a faint thud as he passes where the cat had been. Certain that the cat is dead, he nonetheless pulls over to the side and gets out of the car. He walks over to the cat in the street and bends down, only to discover that the cat is in fact not dead. It has only caught the tip of its tail under the car tire.

He is so relieved that the cat is still alive, he picks it up and starts knocking on doors trying to find the kitty's owner. At the third house, a woman comes to the door, takes one look at the cat in the man's arms and begins screaming at him.

"What have you done? What happened to my cat? Is it dead?"

When she stops to take a breath, the poor man breaks in: "No, ma'am, please-your cat is fine. It ran out in the street right in front of me. I tried to avoid it, but my tire caught just the tip of its tail. Your cat is fine. I'm sorry."

"Well," the woman says, "I don't have the money to take the cat to the vet, and it doesn't seem to be in any pain. But please, before you leave, you must at least bandage the cat's tail for me."

The man agrees, and takes the cat around to the trunk of his car. He gets out the first aid kit, finds the gauze, scissors, tape, etc. Just as he begins to wrap the cat's tail, a motorcycle police officer pulls up behind the car, and arrests him.

The Moral of the Story:   It's illegal to retail pussy in the street.