“Rather than trying to hang a bell around the Cat’s neck, which would just enrage it and lead it to resent us, we need to imprint parental feelings upon it,” said another mouse.
An old mouse with slight hearing problems countered: “Paternal instincts? It’s too early to bloviate about the sex of cats!”
“Yes,” enthused another old mouse in a eureka moment, “we just need to give it maternal instincts. Nature has done it before, so we can do it too!”
“Nature? It’s inevitable that the Cat will eat us. That’s the natural trajectory. We should not resist it, we should embrace it,” concluded yet another old mouse, smiling bitterly.
“Rather than trying to hang a bell around the Cat’s neck, which would just enrage it and lead it to resent us, we need to imprint parental feelings upon it,” said another mouse.
An old mouse with slight hearing problems countered: “Paternal instincts? It’s too early to bloviate about the sex of cats!”
“Yes,” enthused another old mouse in a eureka moment, “we just need to give it maternal instincts. Nature has done it before, so we can do it too!”
“Nature? It’s inevitable that the Cat will eat us. That’s the natural trajectory. We should not resist it, we should embrace it,” concluded yet another old mouse, smiling bitterly.