What is it about cats and kittens than
gets humankind so focused on survival?
Years ago there was a story out of
Pennsylvania where a kitten was stuck in a sewer. People tried to coax and get
the kitten out of the sewer for two days before they called in a local Rotorooter
company to help.
They discovered the whereabouts of the
kitten with a fiber optic sewer cam and then decided in which pipe they would
find her. A guy, who says he's an animal lover, descended into the sewer system
and got the kitten. Somebody named it "Lucky".
I remember a similar story also years ago;
the rescue of Molly the cat trapped behind a deli basement wall in New York
City.
There was some criticism of the New York
media then for spending too much time on the rescue of a cat and not on other
stories. The story, however, was important because it symbolized and validated
the sanctity of life, any life. Why else would so many people, spent so much
time, energy and effort to save a stranded cat behind a wall or a kitten
wandering a sewer line. It took two weeks to finally rescue Molly who was stuck
behind a concrete wall.
Molly and Lucky remind us that the essence
of life is cooperation, concern for the other and compassion for the sustainment
of life.
Given humankind's penchant for violence
and indiscriminate destruction of each other we have much to learn about where
we focus our loving efforts.
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