Genoa – Suddenly and exploding, it broke out in the family the José case. José, the name imposed on him by the fresh grace of an engaging Saramagian pilgrimage, “our” José is a young, free cat from the free feline colony of Borgo Tulipano, a thriving community in a phase of overpopulation. For this reason, and for the common good, the young José was expelled, he set off, and after his three kilometers he reached the edge of our house.
Where did he decide to stop, attracted by the high quality of food waste, by a favorable autumn sunshine, by a persistent smell of first choice crunchy biscuits, and, of course, by the good character of the human inhabitants. José is a sweet-eyed and affectionate feline, easy to snore and easygoing, but there is an obstacle that stands between him and the Promised Land, Nino and Palmiro, the couple of our house cats, and so he decided to pass over. their corpses. Literally, as it is in the harsh reality of feline things, conquest of the territory and its defense.
The young man would have little chance José engaged in an unequal two-man fight against him alone, but Nino and Palmiro are not like him free cats intact in their felinity; to make them suitable for domestic life, so that they would not slip away at the first smell of cats in heat, so that they would not risk their skin in the savage inherent fights, they have been castrated, as is common custom. And so he lacks that something necessary to face the enemy and dominate him. And here is the current situation; José is forbidden from entering the house by human hands, but our cats are also forbidden to put their nose outside, José supervises the exits day and night, ready for treacherous ambushes and devastating attacks.
And Nino and Palmiro now live in terror, orbited by their nocturnal walks and by the daytime contemplation of an unusually sunny autumn, they are depressed to the point that Grazia, again she, has proposed a feline psychiatry clinic, it exists, seriously, and would not solve.We humans are now forced to take a solving action, and on the negotiating table there are three hypotheses; one, take José by the scruff of the neck and take him to castrate to make even and draw, two, take him and take him to lose up the hills, and three, leave everything as it is and watch the struggle for power unfold. three criminal and immoral solutions; that the first will reduce José to a belated and unhappy eunuch, the second will lead to an almost certain death by starvation or at the hands of the gangs of stray dogs, the third will lead to the killing of our dear cats that we have unscrupulously reduced to the condition of victims .
All this to reaffirm once more, dear friends of animal and vegetable nature, affectionate tamers of creation, passionate lovers of Gaea and her creatures, that there is nothing to do, where the human species puts its ingenious hands, it does nothing but create disorder and decompensation , irremediable damage to the complex equilibrium that the universe has given itself by working on it that much for billions of years. All the more so when we don’t like that balance, when it seems cruel and inhuman – but what a stupid presumption to think that the human is the rule of the universe – and we want to arrange things in our opinion, in the service of our liking.
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