Ode to Spot

Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.

I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
A singular development of cat communications
That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.

A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.

O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

Ta-da!!~ Star Trek fanart!  
I like Data :3 
"Ode to Spot" is a poem Data (he's an android in case you didn't know) wrote in honor of his cat, Spot. 
I did the line work freehand with my tablet, which I've never done before. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I did the shading in paint tool sai and the rest in photoshop, though I normally just do everything in sai, so it was a bit of an experiment. I used a couple of SenshiStock's stock pictures for pose reference. 

Video of the episode where Data recites the poem here
Poem from here