Ya.
I'm not a huge fan of breeding or engineering anything anymore simply for my pleasure. (We will, are, doing this to entire ecosystems now, entire forests). We affect the rivers more than the wolves. I imagine people want to engineer entire habitats and ecosystems in space or elsewhere entirely from the ground up. I wonder how the universe will respond. Will there be mutations and ripples through our gardens beyond our control?
Not man. Cat. Wheat. Viruses. Whatever.
We play God far too often.
You're right there's something sexual about the masculine affect for cats. And women do it too. When I was a little kid. I was exposed to a house cat which I mothered, and unfairly treated like a sibling.
I'm not trying to "elevate" or make my rescue cats more "human". I have developed some rudimentary communication with them out of necessity. I can't bring myself to kill them or simply have ignored them completely and watched them die. I then took that step of becoming responsible for them.
The onus is on me to pay attention and meet their needs. And not try to warp them for my own amusement.
I'm maybe at a stage where as I die and age I will have to watch as the strays and my furry friends suffer and die without my aid. I feel horrible for that.
5 years though this one wild kitten would surely 100% be dead by now if I had not intervened. I couldn't let nature take her course and expended a great deal of capital literally saving her through surgical and pharmaceutical intervention.
She seems quite happy now most of the time from as cat a perspective as I can give. And she's not sleeping in the cold running from a pack of wild dogs. Or being harassed over territory by other cats or being a kitten factory. Although she would have died, she somehow got ovarian or uterine cysts as a 6 month old. It's insane how nature does that. It could have been the lack of attention and confinement as I was in and out of the hospital and my family were being brutes.
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