Cats are strange. I’m not a cat lover, but some people are. They’re strange, too.<\/p>\n
When I came home from work tonight, I parked my truck so that its headlights were shining on the curb across the street. I saw a cat playing with a mouse. He’d let it run in the gutter for a while, then chase and catch it.<\/p>\n
Mouse didn’t seem to like it and ran out into the path of an oncoming car. Attempted suicide, I suppose. The front tire struck the mouse, it flipped up under the body of the car, then the rear tire struck it. I thought that the cat’s fun was over, but somehow the little mouse survived and the entertainment resumed. And you thought that you had a bad day?<\/p>\n
Does any other animal kill and eat its playmates? If your dog did that, what would you think? Cat lovers, take heed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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