There's a dance in this old dame of a thread yet,
and that of course
is stolen from Don Marquis' Archy and Mehitabel.
In which, for those lucky few new to Don Marquis,
Archy is a typewriter-fluent cockroach
and Mehitabel is a lady cat.

"I was Cleopatra once," she said.

If there were any dogs in that humorous work,
I have managed to forget them.