Purple Dragon

Actually it was a mole, and it wasnt loose. The cats had it. Specifically Wookie, who brought it in, and then proceeded to torment the poor wee soul in the kitchen. I closed the door. Back to Ostriches!

The noise stopped, and there was silence for a while, so I decided that the poor wee mite was out of its misery, and into my cat's belly.

Wrong!

All that happened was I gave Yoda the opportunity for his turn. He took it into the utility room, and spent a good half hour making it scream. I have a strong suspicion what they were in a previous life.

Eventually, I couldn't take it anymore, so I went in and took the little guy off Yoda, inspected him, found no injuries, so ejected him thru the cat flap.

Exit Yoda. Returning with said mole, and carried on tormenting.

This time, I took no shit, stomped into the utility room, grabbed the mole and threw him out the front garden.

Where, hopefully, he will live out his mole years, well into senility, where he can sit in his little mole hole, regailing baby moles with the time when he was young and he was taken prisoner by The Cats Up At The House, how they tried to break him, but he was steadfast and escaped unscathed back to tell his sorry tale.

Either that or the fox will get him.

I can't decide if I'm being an ostrich about the world. I was looking at the headlines in The Scotsman - I get these mailed to me each morning, and I can click on the link to read the full article, if I want.

Yesterday, there was a headline "Saddam in rage as trial hears torture claim - THE first witness to face Saddam Hussein in court told yesterday of the horrors committed under the former Iraqi dictator's rule, including the use of a meat grinder and torture."

Now, I could have clicked on that link and read all about the gory details, but you know - I just couldn't. I know that the things that went on were bloody awful. I know that 'humanity' isn't very humane, and that, at the drop of a hat it seems, we are prone to rushing out and committing as many atrocities as humanly possible within the shortest space of time. Both sides do it. And whoever wins, their atrocities get swept away under a whitewash of propaganda. The folk who lose - they are the bad guys who committed dreadful acts of torture and evil , and oh my! aren't we glad we stopped them on time - aren't we wonderful!

But - going back to my original point - I don't want to have to read the grisly details. I don't want to know what they did with the meat grinder. My imagination can supply enough details without any help from the press, thank you.

Does this make me part of the problem? Am I one of those Germans who turned a blind eye as they saw their Jewish neighbours being carted off to their doom?

You know - I might be. And that scares me even more.