Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Little "Mon" - LP Zoo

The English speaking humankind
Have long called me a dwarf mongoose.
Such misnomer I do not mind,
Since English tongues tend to flap loose.
Smallest African carnivore,
But dwarf - I do not do Snow White.
I'm compact packed with pep galore,
Always busy each day and night.
I am a mammal, not a bird,
So goose - leave it to humans to
Come up with such a goofy word.
But goofy is as humans do.

At Lincoln Park Zoo, come see me -
Such beauty in beast that I be!