Night mares and hares

Owing to my yet to heal broken shoulder and the recent radiculopathy, I sat at home and just like any other exam season I began to question everything in life. Where was I headed and what I was doing.

It’s about 2 into the dark. I ran out into the balcony hearing a ‘scream of death’. It was the second of the 3 kittens that Tony, the landlord’s dog downstairs has killed in the past few days. I stood there in strange agony wondering if it died the same way as it’s sibling; the same foul play along the narrow edges of the roof?! The last one among Kitty kitty’s (the name of the cat that adopted us) litter tremblingly leaned over the edge and looked as the dog bit the body of it’s dead brother again and again. Do they ever learn from their mistakes like we do, I thought in curiosity.

Maybe, the key to our evolution is that we learn from the mistakes of our ancestors not only through history but also very quickly than other genes and species that need greater Pavlovian conditioning.

As Kitty kitty jumped on the roof to return home with a fresh dead rat, I wondered if she realized that all of her litter is reduced to one. Not surprisingly she did more than I thought she would, she purred in agony all night long searching for the missing kitten, the same purr that the black cat owing to its unlucky color gives away in the neighborhood. Only now did I know what the sound meant. A dose of Alprazolam or Diazepam in the night’s milk could be of some help to her, I thought. The last kitten with blue eyes was fear struck with the death of it’s 2 brothers and didn’t let her mother leave to go hunting for food and played with it’s tail all day. The next day everything seemed fine again and Kitty kitty got herself pregnant again! The black cat helped. 9 weeks later, not in my house Kitty!

p.s 9 weeks is the gestational period for cats.

p.s.s Cats eat rats and eat them with delight but why do dogs have to bite cats when they don’t eat them?!

p.s.s. Do they experience love as the same way as we do?