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Sunday, August 29, 2004
+ Tiger in the backyard +
The moon rises high, and she crouches low... the tall grass gives excellent cover... she makes sure to keep the wind in her face, lest her unsuspecting prey detects her scent... she stealthily moves ever closer... one bite to the neck should suffice to bring it down... the wind changes! Suddenly her quarry is aware of her presence... the time is now or never... one pounce, a scuffle, the chase is over in seconds... it is a parly meal... she'll have to feed again later. Then a tingling sensation, an unexplainable animal instinct tells her its about 10pm... time for the auntie to come down to the void deck bearing goodies which don't run away... ok... the intro was quite cheesy... by now most should get the hint i'm talkin about a neighbourhood alley cat. Gotta love these creatures, the domestication of the cat meant we could bring the bare savagery of naure into our very ikea sofa sets. Humans have had cats for only about 10000 years, but we've had dogs long before recorded history. Thus cats still look like cats, but dogs well, sometimes look like sausages, pigs, stick insects, rats, koosh rejects... u get the idea...yet all dogs came from a common ancestor... the first true "dog"... see what man screwing around with nature for several thousand years can do... yeah, i don't like dogs much, they're so easy to control and manipulate... hence obidience schools... dogs have absolutely no... pride. Master calls, dog comes; master raises voice, dog runs with tail in between legs...master orders, dog fetches slippers with its friggin mouth... a dog is such a... dog. Apart from that, they all smell funny, they bark, fight, bite and kill. Its official, dogs kill more people in the US (abt 7 a year) than shark attack (1 a year). Figures for number of deaths caused by rampaging cats not available. Those that aren't bred to be killing machines, their only role in life is to look cute. Hell, lots of other small furry mammals look cute too... cute dogs have forgotten all means of survival without humanity's assistance... they're friggin wimps... i've seen a jack russel (starhub dog) get spooked silly by a snarling kitten! (it was quite entertaining i must admit) 
But a cat will do fine whether you pamper it or not. It is still essentially, a wild animal, still as dignified as the way nature crafted it, still won't follow orders whether it loves you or not. You can always feel at ease with a cat. You need not fear it slobbering you or taking your arm off. It just has that kind of look. I swear stroking a cat is theraputic... some doctors say it temporarily lowers blood pressure. There's a cat which hangs around the camp guard room at night. At 10pm, I reckon its the only intelligent lifeform with 100m which bums around an army camp by choice, and while everyone goes into zombie-mode, its the only thing which seems happy to see us. Pity i never knew the pleasures/pains of keeping one. cheers!*raises wine glass, strokes cat sitting in my lap*
ian wong beats around the bush@
10:42 PM
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