Guest Post: The Truth About Cats and Dogs

After his diatribe against vegetarians last week,

Working Class Tory

goes all Doctor Doolittle on us for a moment:

Cats are independent, free minds and spirits who are capable of gathering material through their own enterprise and thought. If the cat owner represents the state, cats regard the state with a healthy degree of scepticism and perhaps, even, contempt. They act outside the state, and exercise their civil liberties to the polite maximum. Whilst they take advantage of some state-provided benefits (such as food), they only take what is necessary, and they do it sparingly. They also take less than any other animal.

Conversely, dogs are socialists. For the most part, they possess a lower level of intelligence, compared to cats, and they are entirely dependent on state benefits. They wait for the state to tell them to do something. They never exercise their civil liberties, believing submission to the state to be the best way forward. Throwing a stick for a dog to retrieve it, it simply wears the dog out, and produces nothing for either the state or the dog. In fact, if we consider that fox-hunting is about the only time they are free to use their instinctive individual enterprise, it is only under heavy regulation by the state.

Another dimension to this is that when dogs, or socialists go wrong, they become wolves, or communists. Yes, wolves are communist. They are isolationist, protectionist, secretive, belligerent, act as packs, not as individuals and are treated as dangerous pariahs by the mainstream animal community.

Bears, are a little like Tories. They’re more libertarian, though. They don’t need the state, they rely on their own good instincts, and they are also rather wild.

Well TB would agree with that one...