Your Cat Is Trying to Kill You Again, Part II: The Quickening
LatestRemember how your cat was waging a long-con, biological war on you? And then — with suspicious abruptness — it wasn’t waging war on you anymore and you were like, “But I could have sworn…” uneasily returning to your household chores with a creeping feeling that your cat hadn’t abandoned its murderous plans? Well, it turns out you were right to be uneasy — you’re cat is still trying to kill you, only this time not with parasites. This time, it’s tuberculosis.
Why, exactly, would your cat want to John Keats you, even after you feed it, scratch under its chin, and knit fun, kaleidoscopic socks for its little feet? Because in your obsequious desire to appease your domestic carnivore’s relentless bloodlust, you let your cat roam out of doors, murdering and fighting with small woodland creatures like voles, and drinking unpasteurized milk in the soft moonlight on the moors.