Kitten Murderers
July 29th 2010 21:00
Speaking of kitten-haters (see previous post), a few days ago I found this book in a bookstore HERE. I have flicked through many of this author’s books as they are mainly about animals but so far I haven’t felt compelled to buy any of them as the writing style doesn’t seem to grab me. (As the owner of several hundred books, I am now trying to stop myself from buying more books by trying to restrict myself to ones I simply can’t put down.)
Still, I managed to read enough of the book to feel sad. Part of the story was about a man who drowns his farm cat’s kittens. He has done this several times and is wondering why she keeps having more babies. I felt like shaking the man; how can anyone be so stupid? Driven by pure instinct, of course his cat is going to continue to breed and if he doesn’t want any more kittens why doesn’t he simply get the cat desexed?
Back home, I find a copy of Cat Fancy magazine in my bedroom. It is the annual kitten issue and I tried to imagine myself drowning them. My eyes almost water. They are my children.
Still, I now feel compelled to go back to that bookstore and have another flick at that book. I might just end up buying it just to see if the man later changes his attitudes towards the feline population.
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Comment by Sam Uretsky
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Apparently cats have their feelings about this sort of behavior.