Like Cats, Like Men ....

I recently came across a video on YouTube which truly shocked me. It was classified under "cat fights" and showed a pair of red-orange male cats fighting ferociously on top of a metal roof. The fighting was so vicious, the video was divided into four parts... I guess because they were close to Gabriel's coloring it hit 'home' closer than I thought and anyway, it had really upset me that someone would allow such a fight to go on instead of stopping it. I posted a comment, disgusted, and got several comments in return; they all seemed to be saying the same message: "It's nature !" I thought, "how obtuse.."

Days later, as I'm fast-walking on the treadmill at the gym, my eye wanders up to the TV screen and I catch a hockey fight - two guys are at each other's throats, bodies all tangled up and down on the ice, rolling around just like the cats on the videos. Yep, it is nature. Whether it's a male cat, or a male human... or the female housewives on the reality show where they're viciously attacking one another at the dinner table. Except, in that instance, words are used in place of punches. The natural fight has morphed into a higher art form of sorts. But the words remain ...obtuse and 'natural' (whore, "vajay-jay", slut, "your whoo-hoo", etc.) So, I guess, we could easily visualize them in a down-drag-out fight on the floor, practically.

But I still think that idiot should have stopped that particular cat fight - he was videotaping from a window above them where he could have easily splashed on a bucket of water.