I was sitting under my awning, enjoying the warm early morning sun and a cuppa, and I noticed that my camp had had some visitors during the night. Sprinkled throughout the grass was the evidence. Little black balls of rabbit droppings and some larger ones left by the grazing roos.
As I was admiring these little pointers to the presence of wild life around my camp while I had been obliviously dozing during the night, a magpie couple with their youngun strutted under the awning and across my mat. They treated me as just something that was there - ignored me as they hunted for worms and other tidbits for their brekky. Then the male decided it was time to evacuate his bowel right on my mat.
It was then that it dawned on me.
If someone had walked past with their little white fluffy rat-like 'fur baby' and it had left me a memento of its visit I would not have been at all happy sitting looking at it and waxing lyrical about the joys of animals in, around or through my camp.
I would have been even more incensed if the other end of the leash did not stoop and pick up and take away the deposit of the fluffy rat-like 'fur baby'. I sat and pondered this epiphany and analysing my attitude.
Why is it that it is so easy to tolerate the droppings of rabbits, roos, wombats, magpies, crows, c0ckatoos et al and yet if a fluffy rat-like 'fur baby' performed the same basic bowel movement it would have been quite abhorrent. Indeed, the feelings of such disgust would have been heightened four-fold if the holder of the leash did not stoop and retrieve the delightful little deposit.
I wonder why we cannot tolerate a little bit of 'barker egg' on the ground but tolerate, without even thinking, the little gifts from other animals.
I continued to sit there, finishing my cuppa and enjoying the warmth of the slowly rising sun, and smiled at how wonderful the world was. I made no attempt to clean up or pick up any of those dropping from my visiting wild life yet I would have been galvanised into action should there have been a 'barker egg' left on my doorstep during the night.
I concluded that we, with our elevated sense of superiority, are indeed strange creatures with built-in cultural idiosyncrasies that defy rational analysis.
Cheers - John
[edit: forum 'naughty word' editor caught me - fixed now]
-- Edited by rockylizard on Monday 30th of January 2017 10:07:27 AM
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I thinkthe main reason why.
Is that the former animals are part of the suurrounding nature
Those d.k,s are anything bt, mainly just hybrid mixes of things..
And as they being walked? around the park, camping area.
Supposedly in restraint
The person incharge of it/them has taken responsibility for both them,
Their yapping. And any droppings.
You,re not different, just one of many likewise thinkers.
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