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Silly to pamper cats and dogs inside? (7-7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

feather-brained

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'silly' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'pamper cats and dogs inside?' is the wordplay.
'pamper' becomes 'feather bed' (synonyms).
'cats and dogs' becomes 'rain' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'inside?' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'featherbed' enclosing 'rain' is 'FEATHER-BRAINED'.

'to' acts as a link.

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