The Lazy Dove

 

An industrious cat will go for a rat. A lazy one will crawl among the trees to steal dove eggs, the easy catch. As we have seen, the lazy cat had an early dinner of dove eggs the other day. The dove cried the next day and to give herself some happiness laid another egg on the following day. By the way, they lay eggs in a little series, separated by a few days gap.

Everything is relative. The dove is still lazier than the cat, so it’s a win-win situation for the idle cat. It again crawled for another early dinner, too early this time. I was in the yard when the tailorbird raised a ruckus like a good neighbor. The honeybees didn’t have any issue like the last time. They leave it for the cat and the dove to sort it out among themselves. So they stayed neutral. I don’t think the honeybees and the cat compete for anything regarding food, otherwise they will also sting, if not speak out like the tailorbird. The cat doesn’t seem to have any appetite for honey. A lesson here. It’s advisable to have some common interests with one’s neighbors so that at least they speak out when you are in a soup. This repetition of crime got me into good neighborly emotions. The egg dropped with a plop followed by the lustily hungry cat. My stick dispensed justice and away went the cat scared out of its wits. It didn’t return the next day but I was sure of its return because it loved its milk bowl, being too lazy to hunt rats. It would maintain some distance for a couple of days and again get into the usual business.