For Pepper-Cat, Who brought us a Rio Grande Leopard Frog
(Rana Berlandier)
But then, all cats are dour Darwinians,
students of the evolution of creatures.
Sometimes with the eyes of good scholars, yes,
but mostly by killing and eating them.
They like gophers and green lizards the best,
careless cardinals, and poor baby squirrels,
but never snakes or scorpions or such-like pests,
or stringy, door-knocking evangelists.
They eat little animals who hide in the wood –
they would eat Darwin too, if only they could!