Glass half full of Milk

Couple of weeks ago, Milk was stalked by this horny tomcat ... I tried to shoo the bugger away, but the stubborn prick of a furball didn't want to budge .... In the end, I picked up Milk and put her somewhere else .... and it was then that I realized that she had a limp in her walk ....

I wanted to take her to the vet's, but my friend told me this horror story where her family took their cats for a check-up, and they ended up vomitting blood and gone to cat heaven after the visit to the vet's ... I should've asked whether they did anything about it ..... My friend advised me to let Milk just be ... apparently cats can take care of themselves and their injuries; they know which wild herbs to chew on to heal themselves .... but I'm thinking of something else actually .... I want the limp to be examined, but more importantly I want to get Milk spayed ....

I have a friend who once said that animal castration is inhumane - who are we to have a right in deciding whether cats or dogs breed or not? ... Animals have feelings, too, you know ... Are you sure that's what they want - the inability to propagate? We're going against their natural tendencies .... Well, I forgot the whole argument, I'm sure he must have said it more eloquently ....

But my friend's a guy, you see .... and if anything I've learned about men is that they will always stick to their guns, in a manner of speaking, when it comes to castration ... They can't even imagine it happening to their male animal friends either .....

Well, I guess I can try to empathise with that, but I'm thinking of the way Milk and other female cats behave every time a tomcat stalks them, and you know it's mating season .... Like I've said before, I don't know anything about animal behaviour, but it sure looks to me like those female cats don't want any, and the horny tomcats just dying to give them some ....

Then again, maybe it's part of their mating manners ..... Female cats play hard-to-get, and male cats just don't take no for an answer, or they just don't get it ..... Sounds pretty familiar, isn't it? .... I can just imagine what the female cats are saying, or meowing, to the male cats ....

"What?! You again?!! You had me last week, a month ago, for cat heaven's sake, you had me two minutes ago!! I have nine kittens who look stupid enough to be yours"
"You bite me too hard, almost had my neck snapped last time!"
"What is it with you? Either you smell food, or you smell pussy"
"I don't like you. Your balls smell funny"
"Go away! Or I'm gonna run to the middle of the street with that car coming straight at us!"

..... And you know what, the horny tomcat runs after her .... and then, SPLAT!!! ...... That's the reality of these stray cats ..... It's either they breed, and breed, .... or they end up as roadkill which is actually to me, more inhumane .... One of these days, I'm going to look up that friend of mine and ask whether he still hasn't changed his mind about animal castration ....