Friday, May 19, 2006

Chapter 5 of The Life Cycle of the Feral Shopping Cart


Sometimes the Feral Shopping Cart just can't make it in the wild, but
it can't go back to being a humble conveyor of commodities. Like the
earliest domesticated beasts, they began to associate with man again,
first lurking at the edge of the darkness around the fires at night
hoping for a thrown bone or tidbit. As time passes, they form a
symbiotic relationship with human nomads, eventually becoming
semi-domesticated, but in a whole new way. While they are most
frequently seen working as beasts of burden carrying goods foraged by
hunter-gatherers, the halt and the lame among them take up an honored
place at the hearth.

Russ Fitzgerald
Greenwood, SC


Next time we may discuss the complex mating behavior of the feral shopping cart.

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