Math story · Working dogs
Area of the Coop Floor

Hot light asked for floor maths before chickens squeezed onto a guess.
Five metres by four metres, said Spike. Area is length times width.
Suzy traced: five along, four across. Five times four is twenty square metres.
Twenty square metres of roost floor — enough for a calm huddle if soft eye holds the line.
Not twenty-one because hope stretched the tape. Tape does not stretch for wishes.
Adventure Cap wanted a bigger boast. Lead measured the frame that exists.
Thinking Cap habit: measure, multiply, then invite animals. Cap does not magic-solve crowding.
Little Thunder claimed one cool corner with mahogany entitlement and still counted as one.
Kids: a rug five tiles by four tiles — twenty tiles of sit-space.
Farm area maths protects bodies before the squeeze does the teaching the hard way.
Tools remind. Tape still runs true.
Care shares the square without shove.
Twenty square metres. Soft roost. Honest plan.
5 × 4 = 20 square metres.