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Is someone rounding up all the neighborhood cats?
I put food out for the strays around where I live and I used to have to refill the bowl every morning… now I’m only filling it up every 2 or 3 days? Where have all the kittys gone? [Editor’s Note: I don’t know of any coordinated effort with either of the loca animal shelters to collect stray cats… although one of our cats recently went missing, leaving us with “only” three. It’s pretty unusual for cats to abandon a reliable food source, so I don’t know what to tell you. Although I did see a fox, of all things, in my yard a few days ago. You don’t say where you are, but cats have been known to fall victim to predators]
*** The front page of a newspaper recently had an article about a visiting industrialist. The one concerning detail that I noticed was that he was spending about $20,000 a week, yes every week, for the rental of a mansion. This seemed unrealistic but an ever reliable Google search found that there were plenty of ‘normal’ places for over $2,000 a week.
The individual person is of no concern and the article spoke well of his business and character but surely the fact that there was a rental property that cost more a week than many earned in a year is a sign that society is heading the wrong way. In a world where not everyone can have a home, food, education and safety and the opportunity for reasonable pay for a reasonable job, I find this disparity very apalling. The rich are getting richer and the poor are not seeing an improvement in their life style. We must be able to do something, even if it might involve some citizen action.
[Editor’s Note: Good luck with that “citizen action” effort. I agree with you that it’s pretty sad when some people go hungry, while others could afford to burn stacks of $100 bills in their gold-plated fireplaces to roast gourmet marshmallows. But the sadder truth is that those who could do something about it are largely content to simply complain about it on Twitter rather than be a part of a tangible solution]
Here’s what everyone is talking about this week:
