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We live in one of the tiny apartments in a multi-storeyed building complex that provides shelter to a number of middle-class families. But, the members of the family Felis Domestica who have taken a fancy to our complex might very well outnumber the members of Homo Sapiens. Because these quadrupeds with retractable claws, who can boast of their country cousins- Lions, Tigers, Lynxes, and Ocelots fear no one in our vicinity. The increasing feline population possessing nine lives up their claws bothers everyone but provides comic relief to many.

These cats in our avenue have their own strict demarcations about territory. The ground floor, first and second-floor mousers keep to their floors except for hungry forays into the kitchens across the lines of control. The terrace is exclusively reserved for the young ones and occasionally used by the aristocrats from the erstwhile Siam for body lickings and sunbaths. Some of the tomcats find cozy corners for a purring sleep in places where there isn’t room to swing a cat in, such as the watchman’s cabin, where they might have found the poor fellow catnapping. God has gifted these cats with two voice boxes one for purring and another for meowing and a few of the feline sopranos in our locality keep all the residents awake with their nocturnal orchestras on special occasions.

Some of the residents who wish to be clean as a cat in pattens get irritated when these grey cats mess up their things. The hawks among the residents strongly feel that these cats should be driven out with a cat o’nine tails. But the doves are undecided waiting to see which way the cat jumps. Well, we don’t know who will be called to bell the cat!

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Entry #33124 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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gdе se nemaš gde okrenuti
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
razoruža neprijatelja
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Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
Entry #33343 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Montenegrin
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ноћним аријама
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Jelena Petrovic
ове мачке треба истерати огњем и мачем
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Maša Radonić
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упусти у рат са мачкама
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Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
Entry #33100 — Discuss 0 — Variant: serbian
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rgana za oglašavanje
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
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nakostrešen
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
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da se u vodu ne bacaju samo prvi mačići.
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Maša Radonić
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kao mačka oko vrele kaše
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Maša Radonić
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situacija stvarno nije mačji kašalj
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Maša Radonić
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лицкање
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
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седефли нанулама
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Jelena Petrovic
на коју ће страну превагнути.
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Svetomir Mijovic
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ojoj polazi za kandžama da ima devet života,
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
kada ih glad natera
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
mlađariji
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Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
gde možda čak zateknu ovog mučenika kako i sam dremka
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Jelena Petrovic
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ujutru ni belu mačku ne vide
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odlično
Jelena Petrovic
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da li će se mačke dočekati na noge.
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
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Anita Dalsaso
Anita Dalsaso
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9 života u svojim kandžama
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Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
Entry #32737 — Discuss 0 — Variant: serbian
Cmilja Milosevic
Cmilja Milosevic
Bosnie-Herzegovine
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једва да могу да се увуку
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Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
улицкани
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Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
Entry #33139 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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pruža razbibrigu
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
glađu izazvanih upada
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odlično re​šenje
Jelena Petrovic
Entry #33163 — Discuss 0 — Variant: serbian
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simboli tajanstvenosti
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Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
Entry #33523 — Discuss 0 — Variant: serbian
Abeona23
Abeona23
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glađu izazvanih
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Jelena Petrovic
čistunaca
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
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razbibriga
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
plemstvo iz bivšeg Sijama
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Jasna Gonda
samotimarenje
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Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
oka da sklope
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
naprave nered
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Marina Pavlovic-Cetkovic
kao mačka oko vruće kaše.
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izraz u ko​me se pomi​nje mačka,​ u skladu ​sa tekstom
Maša Radonić
ko će se latiti tog vrućeg krompira
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Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
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