Proof

WHEN THE EXPLOSION of cat population in my small town midwest american neighborhood started to become a tad extreme, i decided to call the animal control folks.. even my community of around two thousand people has its own animal control department; this is made necessary by the huge popularity of dogs and cats as pets in america, and associated issues.

I was told by a nice young man one man department that he was currently finding homes for forty five cats left behind by a lady who recently died, and that as soon as he could, he would visit my neighborhood to trap, and adopt out.

I'll never forget the words of my disenchanted, lonley chinese friend "you amellicans are the loneliest people in the wworld. you care more about your dogs and cats than each other! AS if he was telling me something i didn't already know...all americans know it, and se all basically say, "yeah, so what?"

I adopted two of the stray cats that suddenly showed up in my neighborhood, or rather, they adopted me, by sheer determination. They gave me no choice. One female, and one male. Mandi and Jake.  My darling babies.

so now we have a python explosion heading north out of florida, an exploding population of wild hogs all over the southeast, spreadinginto the midwest, and soon armidillos will be snuffling along canadian highways.

So maybe eventually a little python hunting and hog huntin' might be in order, along with a catch, spay, neuter, and release program for america's wild urban cats. in florida right now, when they catch a python on somebody's fashionable miami suburban lawn, which they do every day, they, the python control branch of the dade county animal control department, catch the snake, then take it somewhere appropiate, like a snake farm of a wilderness release.

catching and transferring pythons in surburban florida, rather than killing them? That, my friends, shows just plain old american compassion and decency. Stupid? Maybe. Proof of moral greatness? Damned straight.