Just when I thought there was no more, I discover I’m wrong. The stubby tailed cats that one sees roaming the streets of Singapore are not an indigenous species of short tailed cats, but rather, the Governments ‘humane’ way to lessening the nuisance strays might cause to local neighbourhoods. In all its wisdom, Uncle has decided that it will allocate funds for a section of its employees to round up the stray cuts in the city and chop off their tails. Pray tell why? I hear you murmur with some degree of horrified fascination. Well, allegedly this robs them of the ability to balance themselves as they leap up walls, trees, balconies, trash cans and whatnot’s potentially causing untold damage to impressionable young Singaporean minds so it is deemed prudent to rob them of that facility and leave them to loiter in a far neater manner.
My look of horror propels a young Singaporean to launch into an explanation of how this is benevolent as no cats are killed and then can live a regular life. Really? What self respecting cat would want a life where it couldn't swish it's tail in satisfaction, lash it in anger, stiffen it in trepidation and waft it as it poised to strike?! I do not have the heart to rip into the young man's pride at his government's benevolence, and privately mourn for all the cats in this fucking insane city of artifice.
P.S. - he was very proud of the crow killing arm of the govt as if his recounting the traumatic experience of having a sandwich stolen by an avaricious crow in his canteen . i will admit to shock and horror at having my first ever toasted sandwich usurped from its delicately posed position between my hand and lip by a rather large and aggressive Bengali crow, but to kill them for it? Isn't training in appropriate self defence or eating indoors a more logical response? I am aware that as a woman with murder in her heart at the mention of the word pigeon that does seem rather a lily livered stance to take, not to mention hypocritical, but yes, while crows are raucous and ravenous, they really do have much more character and less shit and shedding feathers than the vermin on wings!
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