Cat Wars

This place, this country, this region of the world is overrun by cats. Everywhere on University of Haifa's campus there are congregations of cats. This morning I saw three cats run after each other in a single file line. One by one by one. They ran around the corner. They were hidden by the dormitory walls; anyone could hear their shrieks and squalls. Recently, I found out that it was mating season for these cats. The men are fighting other men, competing with each other for access to the women. The female cats sit peacefully in the trees beneath the moonlight while lumpen street cats sink their claws into each other, wailing and moaning for survival, for the passage of their genetic material into the future, a world that they will never see as time slowly kills them.

Cats are always digging in the garbage for food.