On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:45:21 -0500, "HeyBub"
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wrote:
Cat: the ecologically-friendly rat-eradicator.


I am a farmer and always have rats getting into my grain room on the
barn. I have 16 cats. I purposely leave the door open to that room
so the cats can get in there. The cats DO NOT kill rats. They do a
great job with mice, but not the rats.

You don't have cats, you have pussies.

During the middle ages, the Church became convinced that cats were the
"familiars" and hand-maidens of Satan and cats were largely exterminated
throughout Europe. Mice and rats multiplied unabated and the Black Death
followed.

One-third of Europe died.


This is the same mentality that decided old women were "witches" and
tortured/murdered/burned alive untold numbers of innocent old women.
Scholars differ on the numbers involved - from millions to
hundreds of thousands -- but not on the documented existence of
this dreadful, mindless holocaust.

Mentality carried across the ocean to Salem, in the not-too-distant
past.

Hallowe'en is just around the corner. Witches riding on broomsticks -
same stereotype visualization sold in every supermarket aisle.

Very thin veneer of "civilization" on us savages. Sapiens? Hah!