Pigeons and kittens
Jun. 7th, 2004 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Often, I hear people talking about how we need to get our cats fixed because kittens die young or are abandoned to overcrowded shelters, like a kitten-genocide. We need to keep the kittens and cats indoors because they get run over by cars, and die of disease. We need, even, to save feral cats who BY DEFINITION are very much wild animals.
This is all true. I have no argument with any of that.
Today, I fed the pigeons in the ferry. They crowded around the food like... well, like kittens. And some were plump and healthy looking, and some were scrawny and dirty. No doubt pigeons die from poor nutrition and cars as often as cats do. Cats kill pigeons, even, or they can. And no doubt baby pigeons die as quickly as kittens. Certainly *I've* never seen any young pigeons.
Pigeons, like cats, are smart and individual animals. But nobody goes out of their way to mount pigeon rescue efforts, or tries to save the poor homeless pigeons. I'm actually being dead serious here. This is going to trouble me until somebody explains why.
This is all true. I have no argument with any of that.
Today, I fed the pigeons in the ferry. They crowded around the food like... well, like kittens. And some were plump and healthy looking, and some were scrawny and dirty. No doubt pigeons die from poor nutrition and cars as often as cats do. Cats kill pigeons, even, or they can. And no doubt baby pigeons die as quickly as kittens. Certainly *I've* never seen any young pigeons.
Pigeons, like cats, are smart and individual animals. But nobody goes out of their way to mount pigeon rescue efforts, or tries to save the poor homeless pigeons. I'm actually being dead serious here. This is going to trouble me until somebody explains why.
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Date: 2004-06-07 02:24 pm (UTC)