Before I go any further about pets, perhaps I should make a full confession:
I am a childless cat (and plant) lady. What of it?
Now that we got that out of the way, we continue on regarding people’s pets. Specifically the urban legend regarding immigrants (in this case, Haitian) stealing and eating people beloved cats.
Uhm, yeh. I head this one before, from a dude I worked with very briefly at a warehouse when I first moved into the area. Only in that case it was “The Chinese.” And it was dogs. And that was nearly TWENTY-FIVE years ago.
In other words, that myth has been around for a long, long time and probably has a hundred variations.
Further back in time, over in Europe, the stories were not of the (insert most recent out-of-favor immigrant group here) eating neighborhood cats, or dogs, or whatever. The stories were of Jews catching and eating pets. Jews were the group being demonized. And given what happened in Europe in the 30’s and 40’s….that puts things in a whole other perspective, doesn’t it? (I better see some heads bobbing ‘yes.’)
But, certainly, my savvy readers, you can smell BS when someone tries to hand it to you.
