Law and Order: Avian Victims Unit
This afternoon I came home to yet another gift from our cat, Kato: a fully grown crow, dead, left in our bed (on my side of the bed). Forensic evidence indicates that it was a clean kill, a puncture wound to the head. Bloodstain analysis suggests that Kato had some difficulty getting the crow through the cat door (not a surprise: the crow was huge) but went directly from the cat door in the kitchen to the bedroom, leaving one bright red drop of blood every two to three feet. Rigor mortis had already set in by the time the body was found. Kato is currently out in the yard chasing another bird, presumably to replace the crow which I disposed of.
Darrell
www.WildFaith.com
Darrell
www.WildFaith.com
posted by Darrell Grizzle | 6:06 PM
1 Comments:
Ohhh Darrell.
Without taking from my respect for all creatures, cats provide me with a huge moral dilemma. I have owned and loved cats but they are one of the biggest disasters to have befallen the Australian continent.
Since being brought to Australia for the comfort of the last wave of human invaders, of which I am a descendant, cats and foxes have progressively been decimating this country of many birds, marsupials and small mammals. In the hottest most arid reaches of the interior of this continent, cats set themselves up at precious waterholes and systematically wipe out the wildlife which comes to drink. Then they move on to the next waterhole to repeat the process.
The humble doestic moggie has become a tyranical and un-checked predator. There is no carnivore superior to the cat in our ecosystem. The largest, our native dog, is much more self-limiting than cats and kills much more moderately in a highly structure social context. The only other carnivores are (were in some cases) smaller to tiny marsupials.
Most Australians are city dwellers and will only be vaguely aware of what I am saying, since they have long ago assigned the Australian natural environment to iconic myth status. The reality though is that the cat is totally above the law and the purveyor or disorder and destruction. Cats in Australia are truly a symbol of destructiveness of human self indugence and ignorance.
But there is hope. Some rural authorities in Australia are at last requiring by law that cats can only be kept in cages when they are not confined to a house.
Don't mean to offend, but Im firmly on the side of the crows.
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