26
Feb
the various Kibble Gods
I was trying to come up with a good, succinct definition for the term ‘domesticated animal’ the other day. I realized that the definition has to reference cats and dogs, but it also has to reference horses and cows and silkworms. We humans make a lot of other animals work for us.
“An animal that we make work for us” doesn’t quite cut it, because of cats. Cats don’t do anything, as far as I can see. So the definition I finally came up with is
“an animal who can’t eat without our say so.” We are the Kibble God to our domesticated lackeys; that’s why they stick with us.
In a way, the Government fills the same role for us as we fill for Rex and Sniffles. There are many things we can’t do without the government’s say so. Years ago, of course, it was illegal to brew beer; the government said we could eat X, but couldn’t drink Y. Many people still brewed beer, but they were bad, bad dogs.
