Of mice and men
Sep. 9th, 2002 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaYou find a goodly number of people who own a cat - it's usually a cat - that came in off the street: an abandoned kitten or a stray that regular mealtimes turned into an 'outside cat'. Then there are the people who attract strays and orphans somehow, so that they end up with five or six. Depending on circumstances, that might constitute five or six trips to the local SPCA. Different people muster up differing levels of commitment, apart from the basic decency implicit in preventing animals from dying of starvation or exposure.
I don't attract cats. I've never owned a cat, though I'm quite fond of them. I have been a bird owner, however, and apparently in the eyes of Providence this qualifies me as a bird rescuer. I've been to the SPCA so often with wild birds that I've learnt the proper one-hand hold for them. I also have something of a sideline in small rodents, like hamsters or mice. People are *incredibly* stupid with small rodents. I mean all right, they're a little harder to anthropomorphise than cats or dogs, aren't they, but what sort of git abandons a hamster in the subway station? A tame mouse in the mall? Even if the animals were able to instinctively crawl into the walls and burrow a home for themselves - which I'm not at all certain they are - does the act of purposefully infesting public buildings with rodents not involve a certain, I dunno, *irresponsibility*?
There's no help for some people. None at all. >__
I don't attract cats. I've never owned a cat, though I'm quite fond of them. I have been a bird owner, however, and apparently in the eyes of Providence this qualifies me as a bird rescuer. I've been to the SPCA so often with wild birds that I've learnt the proper one-hand hold for them. I also have something of a sideline in small rodents, like hamsters or mice. People are *incredibly* stupid with small rodents. I mean all right, they're a little harder to anthropomorphise than cats or dogs, aren't they, but what sort of git abandons a hamster in the subway station? A tame mouse in the mall? Even if the animals were able to instinctively crawl into the walls and burrow a home for themselves - which I'm not at all certain they are - does the act of purposefully infesting public buildings with rodents not involve a certain, I dunno, *irresponsibility*?
There's no help for some people. None at all. >__
