Friday, September 7, 2012

Early Morning Interactive

Mouse detection by Radar.  I kid you not; the cat's name is Radar.  I had fed the cat this morning before he discovered the mouse.  So, rather than immediately make a meal of the mouse, Radar seemed content to play with it.  He'd take a gentle swipe every now and then, but mostly just hang around and watch the mouse huddle and shiver.  I got lots of good photos.
Watching this play, one can't help but sympathize with the mouse a bit.  But, do we sympathize with the cow or the pig?  No, we rename the cows we kill "beef" or "steak" or "hamburger," and the pigs "ham" or "bacon" and we have a few paid assassins do all the dirty work for us.  Q: Where does hamburger come from kids?  A: Why, the supermarket, of course. 


1 comment:

  1. Hey Joe,

    So true! Good catch by Radar, too bad for the mouse, but that the life of a prey species. Wouldn't world be interesting if we all still had to harvest out own meat, I wonder what would be left...

    Cheers

    Spencer

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