ORIGINAL: Paul L Mohr

Instinct, it's what we were designed to do. We are hunters by nature, and while we have been domesticated many of us still have that recessed gene.

The same thing happens with a common house cat. They are born killers, pure and simple. Most domesticated house cats never need to hunt for food, they get everything the need handed to them and are spoiled rotten. Yet they spend most of their day stalking and honing their hunting skills for no good reason. Even if they don't have another cat to teach them how to do it. It is ingrained in their genetic make up. My cat has never been out of the house and it will attack anything that moves if it feels like it. And it's good at it. Cats are one of the few the animals that are like us, they kill simply to kill. Dogs will do it sometimes, but not to the degree that a cat will. Cats seem to gain some sort of pleasure out of tormenting and then killing their prey.

I simply refuse to apologize for who and what I am.

Paul