Monday, July 07, 2008

The Cat and The Vacuum Cleaner: A Parable

It all started a long time ago, but not too very far away when a young girl was watching a TV news special on fleas. The sage on the TV said that the most deadly weapon in the battle against fleas was the common vacuum cleaner. The mightly sucking power of the vacuum is powerful enough to strip off the fleas skin causing instant death.

Now normally this young girl avoided anything with fleas or any cleaning devises and products, perfering to leave these activities to braver folk. However a change of fortune caused the young girl to embrace the vacuum cleaner like a faithful friend, spending many long minutes in its company.

Unfortunately the young girl's change of circumstances also relocated her to a home with animals and much to her dismay, these animals or pets, had fleas. Even though the young girl never had the urge to hold this pets or stroke them for long hours. As a kind soul, she felt sorry for the pets and their constant suffering under the tyrany of the fleas. She wanted to help.

Deep in her brain stem, little tiny synapses started firing and she remembered that wise Sage from years gone by. "Use the Vacuum, girl". Then she knew what must be done. The young girl hauled the monstrous vacuum outside and plugged it in. She searched high and low for the dog, eventually finding her lying in a pit of misery, attempting to soothe the painful bits in dust. But to no avail.

The young girl quietly called the dog from her self-pity and over to the mighty vacuum. The dog sat quietly as the young girl ran the vacuum cleaner over her infested mane, silently thanking the young girl for leading her down the road to recovery.

As the young girl used her mighty vacuum to free the dog of pestilence, the cat meandered over to check out all the comotion. While keeping his distance, he stretched out on the grass luxeriating in the spectacle.

Finally all the evil vermin were rid of the dog's ebony locks. The young girl seized up the cat and holding him firmly in her arms she brought him over to the vacuum. Before the young girl even had a chance to flick the mighty vacuums on switch, the cat dug in his claws and made a bloody get away.

The young girl was devastated. She just wanted to help the poor flea ridden animal. Now she had her own bleeding wounds to cure. To make matter's worse, the young girl's cat allergy causes all cat scratches to swell up and resemble large, bleeding insect bits.

The Moral of the Story:
Don't mix cats and vacuums.

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