October 23, 2004
THE DANCE MACABRE
I went down to my neighbor's tonight for a completely unnecessary, but wonderfully refreshing, cocktail. As we were sitting on the back porch her cat began a stalking game with a field rat. Actually, it was a field mouse, but any rodent over five inches long is a rat to me, because I saw Ernest Borgnine get savaged by the filthy things at a tender age.
This was a classic hunt, wherein the cat toyed with the poor victim in sadistic glee. Twice I took the cat inside, and twice these idiots managed to let him back out. At that point I was having a Snopes Monkey Trial moment, and let nature take its course.
Says my neighbor: "I think they're just playing."
Says I: "You got that right, but this will end bloody."
It was rather strange, because this whole cat and mouse played out on the dead zone where the above ground pool had been, so there was an arena, sort of, and a distinct gladiator feel to it. The rat was stupid, and kept running back into the arena, instead of high tailing it into the tall grass.
It of course ended poorly for the rodent. Terrible swift sword, wrath of God stuff.
That was a nasty Dance of Death.
You still got Ren Hoek in there with you, don't you?
Posted by: og at October 24, 2004 12:00 AMSounds like a real wild-assed party. What did you do after the "Main Event?" Light farts?
Posted by: Jim - PRS at October 24, 2004 5:53 AMIs Eric's blog busted again?
Posted by: RedNeck at October 24, 2004 8:37 AMCat's kill because they enjoy doing it. Reminds me of a certain woman I once married.
Posted by: Acidman at October 24, 2004 9:43 AM"Completely unnecessary" cocktail? I didn't know there was such a thing
Posted by: Da Goddess at October 25, 2004 2:51 PMYeah, kitties are cruel when they kill, sometimes, but they don't think of it that way. Don't anthropomorphise! I mind the time Dzerzhinsky, my kitty, was interrogating an Enemy of the People. He was purring. He was happy. He was
playing with his food.
The cat mind is not the same as the human mind.
For what it's worth, I think excessive kitty cruelty is a consequense of excessive doodahditude on the part of the kitties' humans. Humans have a capability for speech, but it needs to be manifested by good training when we're young, by our Mommies, or we'll never get it right.
It's provably the same with kitty-kat killing behavior; If you're a little kitten and yer well-meaning, but clueless, human has prevented your Mommy kitty from bringing back crippled prey (so they can only hop in a circle and can't get away) for you to learn your skills upon, you'll be *inadvertently* cruel,and never learn to kill quickly and efficiently.
Posted by: Justthisguy at October 26, 2004 4:32 AM