23/10/2024
Should one decide to live in a pig pen, and then bemoan the filth, we would collectively, and fittingly, question the bellyacher’s misguided choice…….
So, too, should we contemplate, and castigate, those who choose to reside in the rural corners of nature….only to bewail the inevitable interactions with nature’s creatures.
As humans, we have the power to choose to live in a city filled with people….or a corner of wild, untamed rural nature. Both options come packaged with pros and cons…and every time I encounter a human who resides in the latter, and then bi***es about the creatures, to whose home you have invaded, my mind engages in a battle with my mouth….
Since taking a public-serving job in retail, my mind likes to caution my thoughts on the Mind to Mouth Highway….to S**U. After all, I need the money to feed my clowder of spoiled, fat cats…..but OMG, hot pickles in a jar, it is sometimes *SO DIFFICULT* to not admonish a person looking for ammunition in their never ending war on Nature.
Instead of focusing their energy on ways to live in harmony with Nature’s most resourceful woodland critters, a lot of folks spend dollar after dollar on such contraptions as “The Squirrelnator,” a trap that promises to “trap a dozen squirrels at once,” or lay toxic poisons that destroy ecosystems and harm pets, utilize wicked and horrid glue traps that force innocent creatures to endure the most unimaginable, torturous death, and a dozen other repellents, traps, contraptions & killers….
Me, personally? I live in the city. So, yes, my perception is a little screwed, maybe I’m flat out wrong. The only pests I deal with, are transients who squirrel away trinkets and stash away stolen goods in my bushes. Sure, I see a stray rat every great once in awhile….but my numerous outdoor cats dispatch any invaders with efficient speed and calculating precision. We had a mole living under our magnolia tree. After 1 week, we never saw it, or its natural destruction, again.
Which brings me to the question of why so many humans try to fight against Nature. You won’t win. You will waste globs of money, time, and sanity. But, in the end, Nature, and her wardens of the woods, will win….
Choosing to live in nature can bring immense peace, fulfillment, and connection. Our souls yearn for our natural world. But, for f***s sake…….please…stop trying to kill, trap, destroy, and repel the very creatures that inhabit the land. Learn to live in harmony. Figure a way to outsmart the destruction, and adapt to THEIR world.
Humans have the ability to think, strategize, adapt. The critters in the woods only know survival. It is our duty, as stewards of this world, to formulate a way to live in tranquility with Nature.
You can choose to live in the city. You can choose to live in Nature. But, please, stop choosing what living beings have the right to live or die, when you decided to move into THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
Should you decide to swim in a shark infested lagoon, don’t scream & cry when your leg is bitten off and eaten for lunch….💕
formulate ways to wage war on squirrels, rats, mice, gophers, moles, and other pesky “rodents,”
