Nigeria, Aug. 13 -- Nothing inspires confidence in the silliness of the human species than its efforts to understand the workings of others. This, at least, improves wanting to biblically subjugate, enslave, and eat members of the animal kingdom. But when efforts are made to understand what the domestic cat (surely an oxymoronic category) is up to, humankind is bound to come up short.



The issue of imposing curfews upon cats as if they were disobedient, wandering children is one such symptom. While the feral cat is an apparatus of mass killing when it comes to wildlife, Felix catus, that oddly named domestic cat, is more than willing to add its share to the mortality rate. This is most evident in Australia, a country whose native faun...