Cats in the war zone
“Watching her, and the two litters of kittens she had over the following 18 months, offered we humans a new reaction to the cacophony of the war. The bloodiest suicide bombings, even miles away, have the sound and feel of the apocalypse, causing humans to freeze, no matter how often they experience it. Cats need to hear it only once. As they skitter to the safety of trees and bushes, they enter the blast and the tremor on the hard drive of their brains. On the next occasion, come the blast, they barely stir.”
What Cats Know About War by John F. Burns, Iraq bureau chief of the New York Times.
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October 16th, 2007 at 10:50
“…Outside, among the garbage heaps and sinuous alleyways, human beings were struggling for their own survival, and a cat’s life was likely to be meager, embattled and short…” How very Philippines. Ha. Made more tragic by the fact that our feline citizens are not in a war zone.
October 16th, 2007 at 22:48
Interesting. Humans are shattered by wars since time began. Animals, being helpless against man’s stupidity and cruelty, are equally devastated by it. Imagine the fear and agony of horses as their riders charge into battle and into sure death some three or four thousand years ago. Glorious, but it makes any sensible humans cry over the fate of the horses, doesn’t it? (movie lovers need only see LOTR, Gladiator, King Arthur, Troy, Braveheart, etc.) Horses, cats, dogs,camels, lions, tigers, cattles,elephants– all animals are victims of man’s spectacular lust for bloodshed. And we say we are THE HIGHEST LIFE FORM?