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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] New World Order for Cats
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:55:12 -0700

Gaden@ziplip.com wrote:
Re: L.F.London - "trying to get my cats to work out an equitable new world order
for themselves so they will share the food bowl and not fight over it"

Isn't that the nature of pattern analysis? Patterning exists at all levels from the microcosmic to the existentialist.
> We can decide to try to forcibly impose one's own chosen pattern upon
existing ones.
Usually at a high resource cost, with unexpected consequences, and more often
than not, systemic failure.

Or you can explore and define the nature of existing prevailing patterns. Get inside of them, walk around them, and then begin tweaking the system to steer it in the direction you would like it to go. Look for and nurture the surrounding parasympathetic patternings that will symbioticly support your tweaked system.

The patterning for your cats reaches far back to ancestral prides stalking the Serengeti plains, Barbary coast etc. Other parasympathetic patternings extend back to kittenhood and the conditioning experiences (+ & -) of each individual cat. Democracy isn't that well thought of in feline politics.

If they're Democats they haven't let on about it. It's a matter of altering the food distribution system in a way that a dominant, small, male cat can't run all the other males off, without a morsel of food. He has permanentl;y run two off already and is working on the other two, though they resist, hide in the weeds and dart back for quick single mouthfuls.

Applying UN sanctions may not bring about peace at the food bowl. Perhaps you
need to reassess the prevailing patterns and restructure the infrastructure
of supply and methodology of food distribution?

They also have to share the food bowl with one or more opossums (all
Pogocrats), Night Raiders of the Feline Larder.

Just arrived back at the Ponderosa. More after I stash my rasher of tempeh
and spelt bread in the fridge.

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L.F.London
lfl@intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
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