Only two get to come inside the house.
The “Native Cat” voting bloc denies this benefit to the four
immigrant cats. Deserving though some of them may be, this is
the law hereabouts.
We have a somewhat different political structure here than does the rest of the country.
There is a perfectly serviceable barn for the immigrant cats.
Snakes = terrorists and are shot on sight. We “profile”.
Bad dogs = New Black Panthers and are chased off. The first couple of times.
Alas, we haven’t built the barn yet. Maybe next year. I have my eye on a couple of local strays.
Snakes here tend to be tiny, harmless, and slithering in the garden, so it’s live and let live. We’re in the middle of a tiny forest in the middle of huge tracts of farmland, and there’s only one neighbor within a earshot, so the thugs will probably get here last if at all.
We are ready for them, though.
Profiling is sensible and necessary.